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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Orman, Kate
(1968- ) Australian author, sometimes resident in the UK; though some of her sf short stories are independent efforts, as for her book production she has concentrated exclusively to date on Ties to the Doctor Who universe, including several Doctor Who: The New Adventures tales, beginning with Doctor Who: The New Adventures: The Left-Handed Hummingbird (1993). She was the first female writer to ...
Spectrum SF
UK magazine, in trade paperback format. Nine numbered issues published irregularly from February 2000 to November 2002. Edited and published by Paul Fraser throughout its life, from Aberdeen #1-#4 and from Glasgow thereafter. Spectrum SF had high production standards but never made a profit, as noted in the editorial of issue #9, which announced that the schedule would henceforth be "occasional"; no further issues appeared. Cover designs for #1-#5 were predominantly plain white; from #6, ...
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Film (1992). Warner Bros. Directed by John Carpenter. Written by Robert Collector, Dana Olson, William Goldman, based on Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1987) by H F Saint. Cast includes Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Michael McKean, Sam Neill and Stephen Tobolowsky. 99 minutes. Colour. / Nick Halloway (Chase), a feckless businessman, is turned invisible by an industrial accident (see ...
Space Quest [2]
Role Playing Game (1977). Tyr Gamemakers. Designed by Paul Hume, George Nyhen. / Space Quest is an early science-fictional Role Playing Game with a Space Opera flavour. There is an optional setting, one based in a resurgent Galactic Empire which is recovering from a Long Night. (Unusually, the ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...