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Livoni, Cathy
(1956- ) US author of the Young Adult sf novel, Element of Time (1983), which is a Space Opera. [JC]
Hoskin, Rik
(? - ) Author who under the House Name James Axler has contributed to the very lengthy Deathlands sequence of Ruined Earth sf and – several times – to the also long and roughly similar in background Outlanders sequence. Both are discussed in more detail in the entry for James Axler. [DRL]
Shasta Publishers
Chicago-based US specialist publisher founded in 1947 by T E Dikty, Erle Korshak and Mark Reinsberg (who soon dropped out), originally to publish books about fantasy and sf – in particular its first book, E F Bleiler's The Checklist of Fantastic Literature (1948). The company soon expanded into fiction publishing with such titles as John W ...
Weinbaum, Batya
Working name of US critic, academic, poet, editor and author Betty Susan Weinbaum (1952-2026), most of her work being focused on women's studies (see Feminism) within and without the regions of Speculative Fiction, or more broadly Fantastika. She began to publish fiction of genre interest with "Bapka in Brooklyn" in Tales of Magic Realism by Women: Dreams in a Minor Key (anth 1991) ...
Hasse, Henry
(1913-1977) US fan and sf author who frequently worked in collaboration with others – notably A Fedor, with whom he published his first story "The End of Tyme" (November 1933 Wonder Stories) and its sequel in the Tyme sequence, "The Return of Tyme" (August 1934 Wonder Stories); Emil Petaja, whose pseudonym E Theodore Pine he once shared; and Ray ...
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 ...