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Ross, Charles
(1864-1930) UK soldier and author who reached the rank of Major-General during active service in World War One; brother of Sir Ronald Ross. After publishing considerable nonfiction on military materials, he released several novels after his retirement. Of sf interest is The Fly-by-Nights (1921), depicting a Near Future teetotal Britain threatened by the illegal importation of ...
How I Live Now
Film (2013). Film4 and BFI Film Fund in association with Protagonist Pictures present a Cowboy Films/Passion Pictures production in association with Prospect Entertainment. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Written by Jeremy Brock & Penelope Skinner and Tony Grisoni, based on How I Live Now (2004) by Meg Rosoff. Cast includes Harley Bird, Anna Chancellor, Tom Holland, George MacKay and Saoirse Ronan. 101 minutes. Colour. / A troubled American 16-year-old (Ronan) is sent ...
Jones, Stephen Graham
(1972- ) US author, a Native American, much of whose work has viewed the world experienced by Native Americans in terms of horror (see Horror in SF); the estranged possibly delusional protagonist of his first novel, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong (2000), embarks on a Fantastic Voyage through an America that he understands as a Post-Holocaust Weird ...
Pace, Sue
(? - ) US author of The Last Oasis (1993), a Young Adult tale set in a Near Future world that has suffered calamitous Climate Change after long decades of environmental destruction; the young protagonists flee their precarious Keep – a shopping mall in Portland, Oregon – in the direction of Idaho, where the ...
Adams, Nicholas
A House Name initially associated with the Horror High and Nightmares series of Young Adult novels, plus other Ties; used jointly by Debra Doyle and James D Macdonald, and solo by John Peel (whose titles under this name are standalones, not ties), Sherwood ...
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 ...