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Kyne, Peter B
(1880-1957) US author, many of whose stories – at least 110 are credited – were made into films, including his first and most famous novel, The Three Godfathers (1913). Though it only hints at Near Future events, Pride of Palomar (1921) – filmed as The Pride of Palomar (1922) – is of interest for its portrayal of the Yellow Peril menace to ...
Hammer Horror
UK letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine printed on middle-grade paper. One Special Collector's Edition in 1994 followed by seven monthly issues March to September 1995. Publisher: Marvel UK. Editor: Marcus Hearn. / This short-lived title was an unofficial follow-up to the magazine The House of Hammer, with somewhat more emphasis on scholarly film research. Starting life with the now rare Special Edition which ...
McCoy, Nathaniel P
Pseudonym of UK art publisher and author George Grandison Millar (circa 1860-1913), whose The Gold Makers (1911) is a thriller involving the Transmutation of metals. In real life Millar was a shareholder of the Scottish metallurgical company Kosmoid Ltd [see links below], established in 1904, which planned to produce mercury and perhaps gold by transmutation of lead; The Gold Makers is seemingly a roman à clef ...
Suddain, M
(? - ) New Zealand journalist, playwright and author, in London from 2008, whose first novel, Theatre of the Gods [for subtitle see Checklist below] (2013), describes in a goofish gonzo idiom, complete with author's and editor's notes and obfuscations, its protagonist's Fantastic Voyage into other Dimensions, with a crew of children helping operate his ...
DeFilippis, Christopher
(1970- ) US author of Quantum Leap XVI: Foreknowledge (1998), a Tie to the television show Quantum Leap; he was subsequently active in the field as a commentator, broadcasting reviews in Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction. [JC]
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 ...