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Smallville
US tv series (2001-2011). Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar for the WB Network (2001-2006) and the CW Network (2006-2011). Producers include Gough, Millar, Joe Davola, Brian Robbins, and Michael Tollin. Directors include James Marshall, Greg Beeman, Mike Rohl, Jeannot Szwarc, Terrence O'Hara, and Glen Winter. Writers include Gough, Millar, Tim McCanlies, Brian Wayne Peterson, Kelly Souders, and Todd Slavkin. Cast includes Tom Welling as Clark Kent, Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan, ...
Seidel, Frederick
(1936- ) US poet active from the end of the 1950s, his Poetry being highly contentious from the beginning of his career when his first book, Final Solutions (coll 1963 chap), was rejected for publication after winning a YMCA-funded contest judged by Louise Bogan, Stanley Kunitz and Robert Lowell. The three judges resigned in protest; and Seidel's at times scatologically Satirical response to American ...
Sims, D N
(1940- ) UK author of two sf novels for Robert Hale Limited: A Plenteous Seed (1973), which depicts upheaval in an ambiguous Utopia or Dystopia; and The Pastime of Eternity (1975), in which an Stellar Council envoy investigates the mysteries of a planet called Midori. [JC/DRL]
Lambert, Joan Dahr
(? - ) US author of the Young Adult novel, Circles of Stone (1997), which is Prehistoric SF, one of its serial protagonists (all of them healers named Zena) living over a million years ago in the Great Rift Valley in Africa (see Origin of Man); the second Zena, similarly empowered and forthright, lives a quarter of a million years ago; the ...
Darvill, Michael
(1937- ) UK painter, architect and author whose book-length narrative poem, Blessings from a Nuclear War (1987), carries with some metaphysical flourishing a figure named Adam (see Adam and Eve; Clichés) through the history of Homo sapiens on the planet, into the Near Future and an indistinctly described ...
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 ...