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Captain Rocket
US Comic (1951). One issue. P L Publishing Co, Inc. Artists unknown. / Captain Rocket "with his vast storehouse of scientific and technical knowledge, is the last hope of Earth's governing councils when things go wrong." In "The Graveyard of the Rocketeers" a paralysed navigator is the only survivor of the latest stolen space-cruiser, but Captain Rocket's mind reading device and thought projection screen enables the navigator to show his winning a ...
Langley, Kenlis
Working name of Indian-born soldier and author Kenlis Langley Stevenson (1875-1946), in UK from an early age, in Canada from some point after World War One; his juvenile novel (see Children's SF), The Mountain of Mystery: A Tale of the Arabian Desert (1929), is set in a Lost World discovered by boy adventurers in North Africa. [JC]
Comma, Meemo
Name used by UK electronic musician Lara Rix-Martin, who often takes inspiration from sf films and books. Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter² (2021), framed as a soundtrack for an imaginary Anime set in 5781, mixes techno with Jewish prayers and Kabbalistic texts, to draw out the elements of Hebrew lore found in anime and Manga such as Ghost in the Shell (1995), ...
Lusk, Sean
(? - ) UK political scientist and author, initially of nonfantastic short fiction, including A Flood in the Yucatan (2017). He is of some sf interest for a Steampunk tale, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley (2022), set in an Alternate World version of eighteen-century Europe, with the action moving to Constantinople. The protagonist's second sight (see ...
Fuller, Alvarado M
(1851-1924) US inventor, "Indian fighter" and author whose sf novel, A.D. 2000 (1890; vt Back to Life (A.D. 2000): A Thrilling Novel 1911), wakes its protagonist (see Sleeper Awakes) in the Utopian culture of the year 2000, significantly the same year that the protagonist of Edward Bellamy's already hugely influential Looking Backward (1888) awakens. 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 ...