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Earth II
American made-for-tv film (1971). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Tom Gries. Written by Allan Balter and William Read Woodfield. Cast includes Lew Ayres, Edward Bell, Anthony Franciosa, Mariette Hartley, Scott Hylands, Gary Lockwood, Hari Rhodes and Inga Swenson. 100 minutes. Colour. / After the United States places a large Space Station or Space Habitat in orbit, the President of the United States (Ayres) ...
Cass, Kiera
(1981- ) US author whose first novel, The Siren (2009; rev 2016), is fantasy [for Mermaids see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy below]. She is of sf interest for the Young Adult Dystopian Selection sequence beginning with The Selection (2012), set in a land called Illéa, which seems to be a confabulated version ...
Jones, Mervyn
(1922-2010) UK journalist and author, son of Ernest Jones (1879-1958), Sigmund Freud's biographer; now best known for his many novels (twenty-nine were published) from 1952, though he gained early fame with his political writings in journals like Tribune and the New Statesman. On the Last Day (1958) is a Near-Future story about a Russian/Chinese Invasion of Britain, during a non-nuclear ...
de Graffigny, Henry
Working name (taken from his birthplace) of Raoul Henri Clément Auguste Antoine Marquis (1863-1934), French author, journalist, aeronaut and amateur scientist, at one time editor-in-chief of the science magazine La science universelle; he wrote numerous adventure novels and popular-science books whose subjects included automobile and aeroplane Transportation. He briefly pretended to the title Marquis de Graffigny, a ...
Gardner, Craig Shaw
(1949- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Rocket Roll" in Unearth for Spring 1978. He is almost exclusively associated with fantasy, both original titles (chiefly Humour) – beginning with the Ebenezum and Wuntvor humorous romps whose first volume is A Malady of Magics (fixup 1986) [see Checklist below] – and a range of very competent ...
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 ...