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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Mad Max
Film (1979). Mad Max Pty. Directed by George Miller. Written by James McCausland and Miller, based on a story by Miller. Cast includes Tim Burns, Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne and Joanne Samuel. 100 minutes, cut to 91 minutes. Colour. / This low-budget exploitation movie builds up to the vigilante-style revenge of spaced-out policeman Max Rockatansky (Gibson) – who is almost as disturbed as his antagonists – on the motorcycle gang that ...
Duntemann, Jeff
(1952- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Our Lady of the Endless Sky" in Nova 4 (anth 1974) edited by Harry Harrison. His Drumlin series, comprising "Drumlin Boiler" (April 2002 Asimov's), Drumlin Circus (2011 dos) and On Gossamer Wings (2011 chap dos), both with James R Strickland, follows the ...
Daumal, René
(1908-1944) French poet and author, his early poetry similar to but in some ways oppositional to late 1920s Surrealism, perhaps through narrative impulses that well up through his work. He is specifically of sf interest for his unfinished second novel, Le Mont Analogue: Roman d'aventures alpines, euclidiennes et symboliquement authentiques (1952; trans Roger Shattuck as Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing ...
Monir, Alexandra
(? -? ) US singer/songwriter and author most of whose work has been fantasy for Young Adult readers, as in the Timeless sequence beginning with Timeless (2011), which involves its young protagonist in a complicated Timeslip romance. She is of sf interest for the Final Six sequence beginning with The Final Six (2018), set a ...
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 ...