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Forrester, John
Pseudonym of US author Luke Wallin (1943- ) whose work under his own name is either nonfantastic or nonfiction. He is of sf interest for the Young Adult Bestiary Trilogy beginning with Bestiary Mountain (1985), set partly on the Moon, a Dystopian state governed by a puritanical cadre, and partly in Ruined Earth venues. The young ...
Stone, Dave
(1964- ) UK Comics writer and author, initially active in the Judge Dredd universe, his novels for that enterprise, which begin with Judge Dredd: Deathmasques (1993), being set primarily in the vast Dystopian City known as Brit-Cit. He has subsequently been occupied almost exclusively with the production of Ties for ...
Heath, Peter
Working name of US author Peter Heath Fine (1938-1995), whose novels Assassins from Tomorrow (1967) – which suggests that John F Kennedy (see Icons) was assassinated by killers from the future – The Mind Brothers (1967) and Men Who Die Twice (1968) comprise the thriller-like Mind Brothers sf series, which combines a great deal of fairly convoluted action with Time Travel. The ...
Severn, David
Pseudonym of UK author David Storr Unwin (1918-2010), a member of the Unwin publishing family; most of his work was for older children, beginning with Rick Afire! (1942), the first of several nonfantastic titles – the rick here in question being in fact a mundane hayrick – in the Crusoe sequence, which was followed by the Warners series, similarly nonfantastic, perhaps so designed to comfort readers living through World War Two and its aftermath. Severn's ...
Krapopolis
US animated tv series (2023). Bento Box, Fox Entertainment Studios, Harmonious Claptrap. Created by Dan Harmon. Directors include Otis Brayboy and Dominic Polcino. Writers include Abbey Caldwell, Emma Fletcher, Dan Harmon, Tom Scharpling, Rob Schrab, Diana Tay and Siobhan Thompson. Voice cast includes Richard Ayoade, Stephanie Beatriz, Matt Berry, Steve Buscemi, Pam Murphy, Duncan Trussell and Hannah Waddingham. Ten 22 minute episodes. Colour. / In an Ancient Greece [for Greek and ...
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 ...