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Crisp, Frank R
(1915-1996) UK author, at one time in the Merchant Navy; his Dirk Rogers sea adventures, which are his best work, sometimes veer close to the fantastic. His sf novels, The Ape of London (1959) and The Night Callers (1960), are routine adventures deploying thriller and horror elements; their sf displacement is inconsiderable. The latter, involving an alien Invasion, was filmed as The ...
80 Days
Videogame (2014). inkle. Designed by Meg Jayanth. Platforms: iOS. / 80 Days is a text-based videogame which rewrites Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (1873; trans 1874) as a Steampunk Adventure. The player witnesses the events of the game through the perspective of the novel's original protagonists; Jean Passepartout, ...
Somer, Bradley
(? - ) Australian author, in USA for some time, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Bend to Beautiful" in Evolved: Vampire Stories of the New Undead (anth 2010) edited by Nancy Kilpatrick (see Vampires). His first novel Imperfections (2012) utilizes a grotesquely exorbitant use of the engines of Fantastika in its ...
Woolf, A L
(? - ) UK author who wrote the novel Southern Exploration (1953) as by Adam Dale, a House Name of Curtis Warren, for which publisher Woolf also wrote non-sf under his own name. [SH/DRL]
Kwan, Susanna
(? – ) US author whose first novel, the Near-Future Awake in the Floating City (2025), is partly sent in a flooded, Climate-Change-ridden San Francisco (see California), as seen primarily through a narrative emphasizing, without melodramatics, the art of surviving humanely in the new circumstances of the world. / Susanna Kwan ...
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 ...