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Conway, Gerard F
(1952-2026) US author informally known as Gerry Conway who began his career in Comics, writing some non-fantastic scripts for Marvel Comics, and editing the short-lived 1973 weird fiction magazine The Haunt of Horror and writing for the 1973-1975 anthology Comic Worlds Unknown. He also worked extensively for ...
Balch, Frank
(1881-1937) US inventor and author, creator of an improved X-ray technology in 1916 which markedly reduced the time necessary for gaining an image; his sf novel, A Submarine Tour (1905) manages – in a narrative painfully derived from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) – to visit more than one Lost World, including Atlantis, in a submarine ...
Jackson, Greg [2]
(1983- ) US author, active from around 2010. Some of the tales assembled in Prodigals (coll 2016) occupy the water margins of Fantastika; his first novel, The Dimensions of a Cave (2023), set in the very Near Future, follows a journalist's investigation of a secret government project that has generated an AI capable of creating a ...
How I Live Now
Film (2013). Film4 and BFI Film Fund in association with Protagonist Pictures present a Cowboy Films/Passion Pictures production in association with Prospect Entertainment. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Written by Jeremy Brock & Penelope Skinner and Tony Grisoni, based on How I Live Now (2004) by Meg Rosoff. Cast includes Harley Bird, Anna Chancellor, Tom Holland, George MacKay and Saoirse Ronan. 101 minutes. Colour. / A ...
Russell, G Warren
(1854-1937) UK-born journalist, publisher, politician and author, in New Zealand by 1865, now remembered primarily for his controversial role in the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918, when as the government minister responsible he (correctly) allowed a passenger liner to dock in Auckland, an action which (incorrectly) was thought to have deepened the medical crisis. His only novel, A New Heaven (written circa 1902; 1919), is a Utopia set in a ...
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 ...