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Vukcevich, Ray
(1946- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Rachel's Inheritance" in Pulphouse for Fall 1989, and who has remained prolific in short forms from that date, much of his work being darkly Equipoisal; his style has often been linked to that of Kelly Link (1969- ), though unlike Link he uses sf topoi with some frequency in tales like "By the Time ...
Lundberg, Jason Erik
(1975- ) US author and editor, in Singapore since 2007, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Songstress" in Electric Velocipede for Fall 2003. Further stories appeared in numerous venues, the author's first collection being Red Dot Irreal: Equatorial Fantastika (coll 2011) [see Checklist below for subsequent titles]. He has edited a number of Anthologies, many promoting new ...
Blair, Kate
(? - ) UK-born author, in Canada from 2008. In her first novel, the Equipoisal Young Adult Transferral (2015), a medical solution (see Medicine) designed to deal with all diseases has deeply affected very Near Future London. The solution, to transfer diseases ...
Hitch in Time, A
Film (1978). Eyeline Films for the Children's Film Foundation. Directed by Jan Darnley-Smith. Written by T E B Clarke. Cast includes Pheona McLellan, Michael McVey, Jeff Rawle and Patrick Troughton (see Doctor Who). 57 minutes. Colour. / Two children, Fiona (McLellan) and Paul (McVey), find the brilliant but bungling Professor Wagstaff (Troughton) trying to set up his ...
Beeching, Jack
Working name of UK poet and author John Charles Stuart Beeching (1922-2001), active from before World War Two, in which he served; author (in collaboration with his first wife Gwendoline Mathews) of numerous Young Adult historical novels as James Barbary. His sf novel, The Dakota Project (1968), is a Near Future tale focusing on the eponymous, claustrophobic government project which ...
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 ...