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Stawicki, Matt
Working name of American artist Matthew Stawicki (1969- ), though he is occasionally credited with his full name. After graduating from the Pennsylvania School of Art and Design in 1991, Stawicki embarked upon a career in genre art with a 1993 cover for Brad Linaweaver's Moon of Ice (March 1982 Amazing; exp 1988), an image of the Earth and Moon separated by a red bar with a ...
Bishop, K J
(1972- ) Australian author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Art of Dying" for Aurealis in 1997, which with other stories was assembled as That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote (coll 2012). She came into sudden recognition with her first novel, The Etched City (2003; rev 2004), a tale whose venue shares with the earlier work of M John Harrison a culture and a poisonous ...
Mitchell, M E
(? -? ) UK author whose Scientific Romance, "Yet in my Flesh –" (1933), describes the conflict between two Scientists over whose Drug will succeed in rejuvenating humans (see Immortality; Serge Voronoff). Some sign of the problematic popularity of ...
Lynds, Dennis
(1924-2005) US editor and author, most of whose work consists of detective thrillers written as by Michael Collins, the name he also used for his two Military SF adventures – Lukan War (1969) and The Planets of Death (1970) – each tale featuring cadres of despised missionaries who save civilization's bacon. Under the House Name Maxwell Grant, he ...
Lister, Stephen
Pseudonym of UK author Digby George Gerahty (1898-1981), who usually wrote as by Robert Standish; as Lister, he wrote one tale of sf interest, Hail Bolonia! (1948), a Satire on the possibility of genuine Utopian change: in the imaginary country of Bolonia, social and Ecological problems, including Overpopulation, are dealt with promptly; newspapers are truthful; ...
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 ...