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Bruce, Muriel
(1890-1981) Canadian musician, journalist and author whose long-held interests in Theosophy, and other systems of transcendental knowledge, are reflected in her Lost Race novel, Mukara (1930), which is set far up the Amazon River. The protagonists, following a centuries'-old manuscript, discover an Apes as Human tribe, which they are able to escape, eventually reaching their goal, a ...
Suspense
US Digest-size magazine. Published by Farrell Publishing Co, Chicago. Edited by Theodore Irwin. Four quarterly issues, Spring 1951 to Winter 1952. / Suspense was based on the CBS Radio series of the same name, which ran for some 945 episodes from 17 June 1942 to 30 September 1962. It included the script of one episode per issue, and also contained a mixture of detective, weird, sf and fantasy stories, including some reprints. The ...
Schutz, Heinrich
(1888-1945) German biologist and author of Der sterbende Gletscher ["The Dying Glacier"] (1928; trans Frank Barnes as When Mammoths Roamed the Frozen Earth 1929), a Prehistoric SF tale describing in melodramatic terms the end of the last Ice Age, with mammoths and other stranger Monsters battling each other for food, and a Lost Race. Schutz's ...
Taylor, Catherine
(1958- ) Canadian author not to be confused with several other authors named Catherine Taylor in whose Near Future Young Adult Dystopian novel Thirst (2005) a girl on crutches leaves her City to find a new world, which she does. [JC]
Wadsworth, Phyllis Marie
(1910-2005) UK author whose Overmind (1967) deals with Aliens who contact humanity via Telepathy from another Dimension, with news of the coming birth of a Messiah. [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 ...