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Murray, Will
Working name of US author William Patrick Murray (1953-2026), who showed an interest throughout his career in Superheroes of the Pulp tradition (on which he was a known authority) such as Doc Savage, about which figure he wrote the nonfiction Secrets of Doc Savage (1981 chap). In this context he had been literary agent for Lester Dent's estate since 1979. ...
Graves, C L
(1856-1944) Irish-born editor and author, largely resident in England, Robert Graves's uncle; his anonymous sf spoof, The War of the Wenuses: Translated from the Artesian of H G Pozzuoli (1898) with E V Lucas, Parodies H G Wells's The War of the Worlds (April-December 1897 Pearson's; 1898) not wisely but too ...
Tarasov, Vladimir
(1939- ) Russian animator and director. In 1957 he joined Soyuzmultfilm, Russia's leading animation studio, becoming a director there 1970-1991. Tarasov directed several sf shorts of note during this period, as well as the occasional non-genre piece not discussed here. Subsequently he directed two 1993/1994 episodes of the animated Russian television series Nu, pogodi! (1969-2017; vt I'll Get You) about an anthromorphized ...
Clink, Carolyn
(1958- ) Canadian poet and editor, married to Robert J Sawyer, who began to publish Poetry with the competition prize-winner "Father's Day" in Poetry Toronto for 1982; this is included in her first verse collection Much Slower Than Light (coll 1998 chap; rev 2014). With Sawyer she edited Tesseracts6 (anth 1997), a volume in the Canadian ...
Hamilton, Peter F
(1960- ) UK author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Bodywork" in Dream Magazine for September 1990. His first sale had actually been to Fear but this story, "Deathday", did not appear until the February 1991 issue. Though he is best known for his Space Operas – typically massive volumes arrayed in series – he has published several short stories of ...
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 ...