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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Tomorrow Calling
Short tv film (1993). Channel 4 Television, Parallax Pictures, Tapson Steel Films Productions. Written and directed by Tim Leandro, based on William Gibson's "The Gernsback Continuum" (in Universe 11, anth 1981, ed Terry Carr). Cast includes Don Henderson, Colin Salmon and Toyah Wilcox. Colour. 12 minutes. / Photographer Bill (Salmon) is given the task of photographing modernist buildings of the 1930s to ...
Skolsky, Syd
(1917-1998) US author, mostly on musical subjects; her sf novel, The Affectionism Society: A Love Story in a Futuristic Setting (1977), is a Near Future First Contact tale in which humans and the Alien Vars begin to understand each other through the problematics of Sex. [JC]
Le Voleur
Pseudonym of UK author Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909), prolific under her own name as a writer of domestic novels usually featuring women who accept their lot. She seems to have used the name Le Voleur for her less inhibited tales, including For Love of a Bedouin Maid (1897), a Club Story within the frame of which is unveiled a Napoleonic-era manuscript, discovered in the 1890s on an uncharted Island (which subsequently ...
Crawley, Rayburn
Pseudonym of US authors Laura Spencer Portor Pope (1872-1957) and Dorothy Giles (? -? ) for their Yellow Ape sequence, comprising The Valley of Creeping Men (1930) and Chattering Gods (1931), in which two young women – along with the man they both love, and mysterious figures associated with Dr Sergius Marakoff, the Mad Scientist father of one of the girls – find themselves ...
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 ...