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Odom, Mel
(1957- ) US author of many novels since 1988, many of them being Ties like his contributions to the Mack Bolan thriller series as by Don Pendleton, after that author had franchised himself as a House Name; he has also written several series, usually fantasy, including numerous contributions to the Buffy, the Vampire Slayer universe [associational or fantasy ties and ...
Lombardi, Tom
(? - ) US author of a Young Adult novel, My Summer on Earth (2008), in which an Alien named Clint is sent to Earth to persuade another alien, disguised as a film actor whose first name is Clint, to come back home; the tale is spoofish but frequently sharp. [JC]
Pohl, Carol
(1927-2005) US editor and artist born Carol Metcalf Ulf, whose married surnames were Stanton (L Jerome Stanton, 1940s associate editor of Astounding), Pohl while with Frederik Pohl 1953-1983, and later Wilson (Stanley Wilson, 1989). She was active in New York and New Jersey Fandom from the 1950s; her first work of genre interest comprised five interior illustrations in Galaxy for ...
Ford, Douglas Morey
(1851-1916) UK author whose Future War tale, A Time of Terror: The Story of a Great Revenge (A.D. 1910) (1906; vt A Time of Terror: The Story of a Great Revenge (A.D. 1912) 1908) as Anonymous, pits the anarchist League of London against the British government, the rioters' near victory aborted by the outbreak of war with Germany. In The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman: A.D. 1940 (1910) as Anonymous, a ...
Bailey, John
(1944- ) Australian author, chiefly of historical nonfiction, whose early works include an erotic sf novel: The Moon Baby (1978), set in a gadget-strewn but otherwise anonymous world bedevilled by social misfits bred on the Moon. [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 (1966-1967), and later in ...