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Moore-Bentley, Mary Anne
(1865-1953) Australian author, who may also have been known under what was presumably her married name, Mrs H H Ling; of sf interest is A Woman of Mars; Or, Australia's Enfranchised Woman (1901), which is set, perhaps rather obscurely, on Mars, where a Feminist Utopia flourishes. [JC] see also: Australia. /
Message from Moonbase Alpha
Film (1999). Kindred Productions. Produced by Tim Makett. Written by Johnny Byrne. Cast includes Zenia Merton. 7 minutes. Colour. / A short fan-produced coda to the cancelled Television series Space: 1999 (1975-1977), set in the year 2024. Surviving members of Moonbase Alpha are evacuating to a habitable planet they have named Terra Alpha, as the base's life support systems have degraded to the point where they can ...
MacLeod, Sheila
(1939- ) Scottish author, married 1963-1976 to actor and pop singer Paul Jones (see Privilege), an experience reflected in her first novel, The Moving Accident (1968), which is nonfantastic. Her second, The Snow-White Soliloquies (1970), is a Fabulation with surprisingly firm sf underpinning, describing in technological terms the ...
Slaten, Jeff
(1954-2005) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Biological Revolution" with Robert E Vardeman in 2076: The American Tricentennial (anth 1977) edited by Edward Bryant. His one book-length sf tale is Death Jag (1980) with Albert C Ellis, whose Telepathic protagonist must trace a ...
Fox, Peter F
(1946- ) UK author of Downtime (1986), a Technothriller. [JC]
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 ...