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Broderick, Damien
(1944-2025) Australian author, editor and critic; he had a PhD in the semiotics of fiction, science and sf with special reference to the work of Samuel R Delany. He edited four anthologies of Australian sf: The Zeitgeist Machine (anth 1977), Strange Attractors (anth 1985), Matilda at the Speed of Light (anth 1988) and Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (anth ...
Boyes, Kate
(? - ) US author whose first book, Paul McCartney (2003 chap), is a study of the singer-songwriter Paul McCartney. She is of sf interest for her first novel, Trapped in the R.A.W. [for full title see Checklist] (2019), a Near Future narrative of its protagonist's survival in an archive library (see Keep) after an ...
Zimlich, Jan
(? - ) US author whose first novel, Not Quite Paradise (1995), is a romantic sf tale set in rural America, where crashlanded Aliens establish First Contact with humans, an action which ends in Sex and other involvements. The complicated plotting in Heart's Play (1998) and The Black Rose (2000) encourage a sense that an underlying ...
Voltron: Legendary Defender
US animated online tv series (2016-2018). Dreamworks Animation/Netflix. Executive producers: Joaquim Dos Santos, Bob Koplar, Ted Koplar and Yoo Jae Myung. Writers include May Chan, Joshua Hamilton, Tim Hedrick and Mitch Iverson. Directors include Steve Ahn, Eugene Lee and Chris Palmer. Voice cast includes Kimberly Brooks, Rhys Darby, Josh Keaton, Tyler Labine, Neil Kaplan, A J Locascio, Jeremy Shada, Cree Summer, Bex Taylor-Klaus and Steve Yeun. 78 episodes of 23 minutes (plus seven ...
About, Edmond
(1828-1885) French dramatist, journalist, author of several novels of sf interest, though the first of these, Le Cas de M. Guérin ["The Case of Mr Guérin"] (1860) – about a pregnant man – has not appeared in English. He is best-known for L'Homme à l'Oreille Cassée (1862 2vols; trans anon as The Man with the Broken Ear 1864; new trans Henry Holt 1867; new trans J E Maitland, vt Colonel Fougas' Mistake ...
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 ...