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Roberts, Jane
(1929-1984) US author perhaps best remembered for such speculative works as Dialogues of the Soul & Mortal Self in Time (1975), which take the form of a series of connected poems based, as was much of her voluminous speculative works, on lessons she claimed were channelled through her by an entity known as Seth. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Red Wagon" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for December 1956. Her ...
Anthony, Kaye
(? -? ) UK author of a mildly Satirical Utopia set in Near Future Britain, whose nature is suggested by its full title: The Passionate Calvary: Being an Introduction to the Conquest of England by the Forces of the Unknown and More Particularly to William Bundle, Grocer, Founder of the Peckham Guild of Thought, and King of England (1932); through the influence of ...
SFWA Bulletin
A journal, published quarterly, which serves as the official public voice of Science Fiction Writers of America, now Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America but retaining the familiar initials SFWA. The SFWA Bulletin was founded in 1965 and edited 1965-1967 by Damon Knight, as part of his activities in founding SFWA itself. Subsequent editors included Terry Carr (1967-1968), Alexei ...
Glut, Donald F
(1944- ) US author who was the uncredited co-editor of Modern Monsters in 1966. His first publications of interest were such nonfiction studies as The Frankenstein Legend (1973) – the first of several fictional and nonfictional books on the Frankenstein Monster (see also Mary Shelley) – and The Dracula Book ...
Harker, Kenneth
(1927-2003) UK author with a training in physics, employed as a technical officer in the thermal insulation business, whose first published sf story was "Cog" in New Worlds, April 1966; he had previously sold crime and fantasy fiction, an earlier nonrealistic story being "Colossus of Roads" (August 1961 Storyteller). His sf novels – The Symmetrians (1966), which concerns 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 ...