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Salwowski, Mark
(1953- ) British artist. He moved with his family to Australia at the age of eleven, graduated from high school, and obtained two years of artistic training at college until a motorcycle accident ended his educational career. He soon went to work for a printing company, eventually serving as its Senior Product Coordinator, before going into business as a freelance artist. Returning to Britain in 1984, he began receiving assignments to paint sf and ...
Rossi, Marcianus F
Italian born author (1870-1948), probably in US from 1889; he is probably the Marcian F Rossi whose dates are as below. The protagonists of his only sf work, A Trip to Mars (1920 chap), after discussions with Hugo Gernsback and Nikolai Tesla, travel by solar-powered Spaceship to an advanced Mars, in effect a Lost World ruled ...
Warwick, Sidney
(1870-1953) UK author of fiction for boys in collaboration with his son Francis Alister Warwick (1902-1975). Sinister Island!: A Vivid Story of Amazing Happenings on an Island in the Pacific (28 July-13 October 1923 Champion: 1924 chap) features a giant inimical native god who incites its savage flock to oppose the white conquerors of a Pacific Island. In Phantom Isle: An Exciting Long Story of Peril and Adventure (1923 Champions; ...
Land of the Lost
US tv series (1974-1977). Sid and Marty Krofft Television Productions for NBC-TV. Created by Allan Foshko, Sid and Marty Krofft (see The Krofft Brothers) and (uncredited) David Gerrold. Produced by the Kroffts, Jon Kubichan, Dennis Steinmetz. Special effects by Gene Warren, Sr. Dinosaur animation by Gene Warren Jr, Harry Walton, Peter Kleinow. Directors included Bob Lally, Steinmetz, Gordon Wiles. Writers included ...
van Belkom, Edo
(1962- ) Canadian author and editor, principally of horror and fantasy, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Basement" for On Spec for Fall 1990 and has also written as Evan Hollander. He contributed two novels to the long-running Deathlands sequence of Post-Holocaust Survivalist Fiction, his first being Deathlands #61: Skydark Spawn ...
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 ...