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Ryan, Desmond
(1943-2011) UK-born journalist and author, in the US from 1967, whose very Near Future medical Technothriller, Helix (1979) with Joel N Shurkin, extrapolates from the real effects of Legionnaire's Disease to depict a virulent nationwide Pandemic. [JC]
White, Hervey
(1866-1944) US utopian thinker and builder, poet and author; in the world of the intentional community, he is significant as the co-founder of two artists' colonies in Woodstock, New York: the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in 1902, and the Maverick colony in 1905. Influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement whose Utopian precepts and practice were shaped by William Morris and others, both continue to exist in some form, Maverick primarily ...
Crash Comics
US Comic (1940). Tem Publishing Co Inc. 5 issues. Artists include Pagsilang Isip, Rudolf Johnson and Jack Kirby. Script writers include Jack Kirby and Robert Turner. 68 pages per issue, each with 9-11 strips of varying lengths, plus a two-page text story. Stories were a mixed-bag of genres, but sf and fantasy dominated (mainly because for #1-#3 the Strongman strip was 19 pages long and the Shangra 10 pages). / "And ...
Brenton, Howard
(1942- ) UK screenwriter and playwright, active from the late 1960s, his dramas often being Satires focused on social, economic and political issues in the UK, frequently conveyed through estranged pantomime routines as evolved from Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), some of whose plays he has adapted for British performance. Singletons of sf interest include ...
Bigfoot and Wildboy
Juvenile tv series (1977-1979). Krofft Entertainment for ABC-TV. Executive producers Sid and Marty Krofft (see The Krofft Brothers). Producer Donald R Boyle. Directors included Boyle, Irving J Moore, Gordon Wiles. Writers unknown. Cast includes Joseph Butcher, Monica Ramirez, Yvonne Regalado, Ned Romero, Al Wyatt Jr and Ray Young. 20 (or 28) 30-minute episodes. Colour. / In the back-story, Wildboy (Butcher) – no given name revealed ...
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 ...