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Daniel, Gabriel
(1649-1728) French historian, polemical theologian and author whose Voiage du Monde de Descartes (1690; trans Thomas Taylor as A Voyage to the World of Cartesius 1692) is a Fantastic Voyage through the Cartesian universe, eventually carrying its protagonists beyond the Moon into outer "space" (it has been speculated that Daniel was the first to use the word in this sense). Space turns out to contain at ...
Axler, James
A House Name used by the Gold Eagle Books division of Harlequin Enterprises Ltd – Harlequin also published the Laser Books series in the 1970s – for various series, three of them of sf interest, two of these being extremely long. Deathlands (over 120 volumes) begins as a Ruined Earth sequence set 100 years after nuclear war has terminated civilization in 2001 in a ...
Russ, Joanna
(1937-2011) US academic and author who taught at various universities from 1970; she was a professor of English at the University of Washington from 1977 until her retirement in 1991. She began publishing sf in with "Nor Custom Stale" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for September 1959, a journal to which she also contributed intermittent but influential book reviews between 1967 and 1980. Her early work is less formally innovative than the stories ...
Uchūdaikaijū Girara
Film (1967; vt The X from Outer Space). Shôchiku Eiga. Directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu. Written by Moriyoshi Ishida, Eibi Motomochi, Kazui Nihonmatsu. Cast includes Mike Daneen, Peggy Neal, Keisuke Sonoi, Toshiya Wazaki and Shinichi Yanagisawa. 89 minutes. Colour. / Four astronauts – Captain Sano (Wazaki), biologist Lisa (Neal), Dr Shioda (Sonoi), and communications officer Miyamoto (Yanagisawa) – are sent on a flight to Mars to ...
Moore, Fiona
(1974- ) Canadian academic and author, in the UK from before 2005; in her nonfiction she specializes in the "international business", and is Professor of Business Anthropology in the University of London (see Anthropology).. She is of sf interest initially for nonfiction studies in Television series, beginning with Liberation: The Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Blake's 7 (2003) with Alan ...
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 ...