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Glass, Matthew
Pseudonym of Australian-born doctor and author (1954- ), in medical practice in the UK for several years, whose first novel, Ultimatum (2009), is set mostly in a Near Future America where, by 2032, Climate Change has begun radically to affect coastal areas, with an estimated 25,000,000 citizens forced to retreat from the rising seas. These dire circumstances are soon submerged in ...
Cooney, Michael
(1921- ) Irish author of two Near Future novels, Doomsday England (1967) and Ten Days to Oblivion (1968), which predict the dire consequences of allowing any relaxation of vigilance against the foe, which is in this case Communism. [JC]
Pomerleau, Luc
(1955- ) French-speaking Canadian physics graduate, technical translator, editor of the French-language Quebec sf magazine Solaris since 1986, and sf and comics critic. He wrote the section on Francophone sf in the Canada entry of this encyclopedia's second edition. [PN]
Valentine, Nicole
(? - ) US teacher and author whose first novel, A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity (2019), couches a complex Time Travel narrative in terms available to a younger cohort of the Young Adult category. The young protagonist, after suffering through the disappearance of a sibling and his mother, must learn the combination of Physics and ...
Sword Art Online
Japanese animated tv series (2012), commonly abbreviated as SAO. A-1 Pictures/Aniplex/Genco. Producers include Shinichirō Kashiwada and Kazuma Miki. Screenplay by Yukie Sugawara and others, based on Light Novels by Reki Kawahara. Director: Tomohiko Itō. Music: Yuki Kajiura. Voice cast includes Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Miyuki Sawashiro and Ayana Taketatsu. Twenty-five 24-minute episodes. Colour. / ...
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 ...