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Sarrantonio, Al

(1952-2025) US editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ahead of the Joneses" in Asimov's for March 1979. Much of his work was horror, sometimes tinged with sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Worms (1985), a Gothic tale set in Massachusetts with hints of H P Lovecraft; and the Equipoisal Moonbane ...

Addeo, Edmond G

(1936-    ) US engineer, science journalist and author of nonfiction and historical works in addition to his two sf novels in collaboration with Richard M Garvin (whom see for details), The FORTEC Conspiracy (1968) and The Talbott Agreement (1968). [DRL]

Bailey, Mark

(?   -    ) US author whose Saint: A Novel of Intrigue and Faith (1997) applies speculative Genetic Engineering concepts – the transfer of human personalities via DNA samples – to a tale involving high Religion (the Pope has St Peter resurrected) and intrigue, as St Peter is being stalked by an assassin. Bailey's handling of these issues is light-hearted. [JC]

Nuclear Winter

The possibility that smoke and dust from a large nuclear exchange (as in most models of World War Three) might bring about drastic Climate Change was advanced by scientists in 1982; Carl Sagan was part of a team which conducted computer modelling of atmospheric effects and published the admonitory paper "Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions" (23 December 1983 ...

Elam, Richard M, Jr

(1920-2013) US author whose early work was chiefly written for young readers, often aimed at teenage boys; after about 1965 he pursued other interests. Much of his output was sf, including a number of short works which appeared in such non-sf publications as Boys' Life. His first sf book was Teen-age Science Fiction Stories (coll 1952; vt Young Reader's Science Fiction Stories 1957; vt Science Fiction Stories 1964); ...

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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