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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 ...
Pieczenik, Steve R
(1943- ) Cuban-born US author most of whose work of any genre interest has been contributed as Ties to the Tom Clancy's Net Force Shared World sequence of Near Future Technothrillers supervised by Tom Clancy, beginning with Net Force (1999) with Steve ...
Vandel, Jean-Gaston
Joint pseudonym of Belgian authors Jean Libert (1913-1995) and Gaston Vandenpanhuyse (1913-1981), best known for the nonfantastic Coplan FX-18 sequence of thrillers as by Paul Kenny. Their twenty sf novels under the ambitious Anticipations label, used by the publisher Fleuve Noir for a large number of titles in the 1950s, tend to place speculative renderings of various types of society – some Technocratic, some more loosely constructed – ...
Popp, Robin T
(? - ) US corporate executive and author whose first romantic Space Opera series, the Sun sequence beginning with Too Close to the Sun (2003) features Aliens whose interstellar practice it is to abduct members of intelligent species, subject them to total Memory Edits, and sell the bodies off. The second volume, Dark Side of the Sun ...
Gold Key Comics
This and Whitman Comics were imprints of Western Publishing, which had for some years packaged Comics for the old Dell Comics line. From 1962, Western began publishing its own line of comics under the Gold Key imprint. Several were of sf interest, including licensed titles based on popular Television programmes. Space Family Robinson began publication in 1963 prior to the Irwin ...
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 ...