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Clothier, Bob

(1921-1999) Canadian artist who, after serving in World War Two, graduated in architecture from the University of British Columbia and then lived in the UK for some years. While there he did ten covers for New Worlds and several for Nebula Science Fiction, plus copious interior work for both of these magazines and for Science Fantasy; his ...

Music

This article deals with music as it is portrayed and speculated about in sf. For discussion of actual music with sf themes, see SF Music. / Of the Arts, music is the one most commonly featured in sf – albeit not quite to the extent that Fantasy is pervaded by it. Several sf writers studied it, notably including Lloyd Biggle Jr (PhD in musicology), Langdon ...

Allingham, Margery

(1904-1966) UK author, daughter of H J Allingham, active from her teens, when she published her first novel Blackerchief Dick (1923), an adventure set in the seventeenth century as conveyed through séances (see Club Story). She remains best known for the popular and long-running Albert Campion sequence of detective novels beginning with The Crime at Black Dudley (1929; vt ...

Goldstone, Lawrence

(1947-    ) US author of considerable nonfiction, including several perusals of the book trade, and of Off-Line (1998), a thriller set in a world whose citizens, as the moment of Singularity seems to be approaching, have become sidelined; any speculations about the nature of the Near Future are soon drowned in action. [JC]

Queen of Outer Space

Film (1958). Allied Artists. Directed by Edward Bernds. Written by Charles Beaumont and Edward Bernds (uncredited), based on a story by Ben Hecht. Cast includes Paul Birch, Eric Fleming, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Laurie Mitchell and Dave Willock. 80 minutes. Colour. / Flying to Earth's Space Station to investigate intimations that we have unfriendly "neighbours", four astronauts watch as the ...

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 ...



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