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Kaveney, Roz
(1949- ) UK critic, editor, author and poet. Her sf criticism, beginning in the late 1970s (before 1980 as by Andrew Kaveney), has appeared in such specialist journals as Foundation and in non-genre outlets including the Washington Post and Books and Bookmen; it is marked by a seemingly off-hand general erudition and a knowing sharpness about the field; she created the term ...
Bennis, Robyn
(? - ) US biotech scientist and author whose Signal Airship sequence beginning with The Guns Above (2017) follows the career of a female Airship captain in a Steampunk Alternate World. The complications of her career are reminiscent of those of C S Forester's Horatio Hornblower, and though the series may ...
Hunter, Thomas O'D
(? - ) US author of a Post-Holocaust tale, Softly Walks the Beast (1982), in which survivors must cope with events typical of Horror in SF. [JC]
Greer, Richard
Joint pseudonym of Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg used for the stories "The Great Kladnar Race" (December 1956 Amazing) and "The Secret of the Shan" (June 1957 Fantastic). According to Silverberg the earlier Greer story "Calling Captain Flint" (August 1956 Amazing Stories) is by Garrett alone. [PN/DRL] links / ...
Gale, Floyd C
(1918-1997) Working name of Floyd C Gold, US critic and author, the brother of H L Gold. He began to publish work of genre interest with "Treachery on Planetoid 41" in Amazing for June 1940, a tale of two astronauts shipwrecked on an Asteroid with insufficient supplies to support both before rescue. He began writing the "Galaxy's Five Star Shelf" book review column in Galaxy for ...
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 ...