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Pollack, Rachel
(1945-2023) US author, resident in the Netherlands 1973-1990, subsequently in America, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Pandora's Bust" as by Richard A Pollack in New Worlds Quarterly 2 (anth 1971 ) edited by Michael Moorcock (see also New Worlds). Her focus as a teller of tales moved steadily away from Genre SF, though her first novel, Golden Vanity ...
Lord, Karen
(1968- ) Barbados-born author, partly in Canada from late childhood, though she has continued to spend considerable time in Barbados. Her first novel, Redemption in Indigo (2010), is a fantasy Twice-Told from a West African folktale; the novel describes in wryly Feminist terms the attempts of an abandoned husband to restore the status quo; but his powerful wife has been granted by spirit figures a Magic ...
Shuttle, Penelope
(1947- ) UK poet and author, married to Peter Redgrove (whom see for their sf collaborations) until his death in 2003. Jesusa (1971 chap) is an expressionist presentation of Sex seen as metamorphic, mythopoeic. Her only full-length solo fiction of genre interest, The Mirror of the Giant: A Ghost Story (1980), combines Feminist self-analysis with elements of ...
Mullally, Frederic
(1918-2014) UK journalist, publicist and author whose only sf novel – after the borderline Oh! Wicked Wanda (1970) – is Hitler Has Won (1975), based on a Comic strip in Penthouse Magazine; an a competent presentation of what has become a very common Alternate-History vision of history (see Hitler Wins). Mullally's particular explanation for Hitler's ...
Dank, Milton
(1920-2019) US historian, physicist and author, often on military matters, who collaborated with his daughter, Gloria Rand Dank [whom see for details], on the Galaxy Gang sequence for Young Adult readers. [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 ...