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Van Stry, John
(? - ) US author, who also writes as by Jan Stryvant; beginning to publish work of genre interest with "Changes" in Yarf!: The Journal of Applied Anthropomorphics for December 1997. For most of his early career he focused on fantasy series like the long Valens Legacy sequence beginning with Black Friday (2017 ) as by Jan Stryvant [this series and others under this name are not listed in Checklist below]. Van Stry is of sf ...
Tayler, J Lionel
(1874-1930) UK medical doctor, teacher, minister and author whose remarkable Scientific Romance, The Last of My Race: A Dream of the Future (1924), has perhaps suffered through its being structured as a dream. Ignoring (as proper) its debilitating, tagged-on conclusion, Tayler's Future History reads as a worthy precursor of the cosmic histories soon to be composed by Olaf ...
Linklater, Eric
(1899-1974) Scottish author and playwright, in active service (underage) during World War One, an experience which, he stated twenty years after its close, transformed him from a "patriot" into a thinking man. He was proficient in various genres though he is best remembered for his novels, beginning with White Maa's Saga (1929), the best-known of these being Juan in America (1931), a picaresque Satire on ...
Mitchell, George Dean
(1894-1961) Australian soldier and author, in active service during World War One, whose The Awakening (1937), a Future War tale about the Invasion of Australia, was written as a Dreadful Warning, and as a kind of manual for soldiers facing the future. [JC]
Morte Viene dal Pianeta Aytin, La
["Death Comes from Planet Aytin"] Film (1967; vt I Diavoli della Spazio; vt The Snow Devils; vt Space Devils). Mercury Film International/Southern Cross Productions. Directed by Antonio Margheriti credited as Anthony Dawson. Written by Margheriti, Renato Moretti, Ivan Reiner, and Charles Sinclair (uncredited), based on a story by Moretti, Reiner, and Audrey Wisberg (uncredited). Cast includes Renato Baldini, Wilbert Bradley, Ombretta Colli, Enzo Fiermonte, Giacomo ...
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 ...