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Forward, Martha Dodson
(1934- ) American author, widow of Robert L Forward and mother of Julie Forward Fuller (Robert L Forward's collaborator) and supernatural fiction author Robert Dodson Forward (1958- ); she collaborated with her husband on two volumes of the Rocheworld sequence (see Robert L Forward for details). [JC]
Kato, Ken
Apparent pseudonym of the unidentified US or Japanese author (1950- ) of the unfinished Yamato sequence of Military SF Space Operas beginning with Yamato: A Rage in Heaven (1990) [for vts see Checklist]; sectors of the galaxy under American and Japanese control come to blows. There are many battles. [JC]
Main, Carol
(? - ) UK author of Young Adult novels, including the Fraser Family sequence, comprising The White Planet (1982), Planet of Evil (1983) and Planet of Adventure (1986), featuring lightly sketched Space Opera adventures on various planets; echoes of the Robinsonade are also lightly sketched in. ...
Atkins, Juan
(1962- ) US electronic musician and composer. Inspired by Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, Yellow Magic Orchestra and Parliament, Atkins began experimenting with synthesizers and tape-decks in the early 1980s, making a name for himself as a pioneer of techno and hip-hop. He has recorded under a variety of names. As "Cybotron" he had hits ...
Stapledon, Olaf
(1886-1950) UK author and philosopher, born in the Wirral peninsula near Liverpool, where he spent the greater part of his life. In Waking World (1934) he admitted that he lived "chiefly on dividends and other ill-gotten gains". The name Olaf does not indicate foreign antecedents: his parents had been reading Carlyle's The Early Kings of Norway (coll 1875) when he was born. After studying at Balliol College, Oxford, he worked for a short period without enthusiasm in ...
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 ...