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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Pakenham, Ivo
(1903-1980) UK interior decorator, antiques dealer and author whose one novel, Fanfaronade (1934), is a tale involving Timeslip from 1928 to France in 1474. The protagonist, who has lost his Memory (see Amnesia), spends some adventurous years in this world, until recovering his memory he awakens again in the contemporary world. [JC]
Erikson, Andrew
(? - ) UK editor whose two Anthologies, The Classic Science Fiction Collection (anth 2018) and Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories (anth 2018), provide a range of tales, mostly from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The latter volume, through an espousal of H G Wells and Robert E Howard as figures of cognate ...
Nexxus
US professional Online Magazine produced by Richmond Wilson, Baltimore, Maryland. It ran for eleven quarterly issues, Winter 2001 to Fall 2003. Its former online issues can no longer be accessed and little from this magazine seems to have been reprinted. The Fall 2002 issue became memorable because one of its stories, "A Gift of Verse" by John A Flynn, was nominated for a Hugo award but had to be withdrawn because it was a reprint ...
Smith, Gregory J
(? - ) US patent attorney and author of the Starquest series of Space Operas beginning with Captive Planet (1986), composed with homiletic intent to espouse the Christian Religion. [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 ...