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Assollant, Alfred
(1827-1886) French author whose strong republican views affected his career, sometimes damagingly, and which permeate his work as a whole, giving a mildly transgressive tone to the two tales so far translated into English. Histoire fantastique du célébre Pierrot (1860; trans A G Munro as The Fantastic History of the Celebrated Pierrot 1875) [for subtitles see Checklist below] is a spoofish Tall Tale recounting the triumphant ...
Clink, Carolyn
(1958- ) Canadian poet and editor, married to Robert J Sawyer, who began to publish Poetry with the competition prize-winner "Father's Day" in Poetry Toronto for 1982; this is included in her first verse collection Much Slower Than Light (coll 1998 chap; rev 2014). With Sawyer she edited Tesseracts6 (anth 1997), a volume in the Canadian ...
American Cyborg: Steel Warrior
Film (1993). Yoram Globus and Christopher Pearce Present a Global Pictures Production. Executive producers Amnon Globus and Marcos Szwarcfiter, produced Marti Raz, directed by Boaz Davidson. Written by Brent Friedman and Bill Crounse and Don Pequignot, based on a story by Davidson and Pearce. Cast includes Nicole Hansen, Joe Lara and John Ryan. 94 minutes. Colour. / The production background is obscure, but this straight-to-video exploitation thriller appears to be, unusually, an ...
Blumenfeld, F Yorick
(1932-2024) Dutch-born journalist and author, in the US from 1941, in New Zealand during the 1960s, and in the UK from 1969; son of the German artist and photographer Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969), about whom he wrote The Naked and the Veiled: The Photographic Nudes of Erwin Blumenfeld (1999). His first sf novel, Jenny Ewing: My Diary (1981 chap; vt Jenny: My Diary 1982 chap) as by Jenny Ewing offers an exceedingly grim ...
Michel, Louise
(1830-1905) French teacher, anarchist and author, imprisoned in 1871 and deported in 1873 for her unyielding dedication to the principles that inspired the Communards during the siege of Paris 1870-1871, returning to France in 1880 as a convinced anarchist and Feminist; she was frequently imprisoned in later years, which she spent partly in exile in London; her funeral in Marseille was attended by a vast crowd. Her sf consists of the first two volumes of a projected ...
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 ...