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Krofft Brothers, The
The Canadian puppeteer siblings Marty Krofft (1937-2023) and Sid Krofft (1929- ), of Greek/Hungarian origin with birth names Moshopopoulos and Cydus Yolas, were responsible for several well-remembered children's Television series. These began with The Banana Splits (1968-1970) for Hanna-Barbera – starring the titular puppet rock group – followed by their ...
Gallion, Jane
(1938-2003) US poet and author, best known for gonzo pornography, the only sf example of which is Biker (1969), a Post-Holocaust tale set in a California dominated by bikers and Drug-cults, and other manifestations of hippy culture gone haywire, in which the repeated acts of rape inflicted on the protagonist are conveyed realistically, and conspicuously without auctorial relish. "Beneath ...
Monomolecular Wire
An ultra-strong and ultra-thin monofilament occasionally found in sf and typically consisting of a single, very strongly bonded molecule, though other explanations may be given. Obvious real-world precursors are synthetic fibres such as nylon monofilament; the film The Man in the White Suit (1951) extrapolates from nylon to the nearly uncuttable monofilament used to make the dirt-proof and tear-proof garment of the title. In the same ...
Franklin, K D
Probable pseudonym of UK chemist, teacher and author A A Haslam (1929- ); his only sf publication, The Worlds of Sector P (1979), is a Space Opera whose protagonist, in his quest for a lost Spaceship and its crew, lands upon a planet where a range of AIs have manifested themselves in various forms, some of them in Robot bodies. [JC]
Cornett, Robert
(1952-2022) US author who saw military service and also worked inter alia as paramedic, firefighter, postal worker, private investigator, and academic. He began to publish work of genre interest with Remember the Alamo? (1980; vt Remember the Alamo! 1986) as Robert Charles Cornett in collaboration with Kevin D Randle, opening the Time Mercenaries sequence of Military SF involving ...
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 ...