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Omnibuses
While the term "omnibus" has sometimes been used to describe Anthologies, as in the title of Groff Conklin's anthology Omnibus of Science Fiction (anth 1952), it is better reserved for volumes in which complete novels predominate. It is commonplace for veteran authors to republish three or more of their novels in single volumes, especially if they are parts of a trilogy or Series – ...
Arno Press
US publisher specializing in facsimile reprint series. In 1975 Arno published a series of 62 sf titles (49 fiction and 13 nonfiction) edited by Robert Reginald and Douglas Menville. The fiction titles date mostly from the period 1885-1925; the nonfiction includes useful reprints of various bibliographic and critical works (including SF Horizons) originally published in very small editions. ...
Skibidi Toilet
Georgian animated online tv series (2023-current). Created by Alexey Gerasimov (under the name DaFuq!?Boom!) and released in instalments on YouTube. Colour. / Skibidi Toilet begins with a viral 11-second clip of a head emerging out of a toilet while singing the literally infectious Skibidi song ("Skibidi dop dop dop yes yes ..."). Subsequent episodes grew in length and sophistication. It is the most viewed series on YouTube, a mainstay of Generation Alpha pop culture, and a ...
Foster, M A
(1939-2020) US author, former data-systems analyst and sequentially a Russian linguist and ICBM launch-crew commander to the US Air Force; he was also a semiprofessional photographer. After some poetry, released privately as Shards from Byzantium (coll 1969 chap) and The Vaseline Dreams of Hundifer Jones (coll 1970 chap), he began to publish sf with the ambitious Ler trilogy about a race of Supermen created by ...
Smith, William Hawley
(1845-1922) US educator and author whose first novel, The Evolution of "Dodd," in His Struggle for the Survival of the Fittest in Himself: Tracing his Chances, his Changes, and How He Came Out (1884) [see Checklist for vt and other data], examines Social Darwinism cursorily. Of sf interest is very Near Future The Promoters: A Novel without a Woman (1904), whose shady protagonists hope to apply to ...
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 ...