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Moore, Chris
(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...
Megaville
Film (1990). White Noise/Heritage. Directed by Peter Lehner. Written by Lehner, Gordon Chavis. Cast includes Kristen Cloke, Stefan Gierasch, J C Quinn, Daniel J Travanti, Grace Zabriskie and Billy Zane. 95 minutes. Colour. / An impressive but very low-budget picture, updating some of the feel of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965) in its vision of a transformed future USA (played oddly but effectively by present-day Switzerland) divided into ...
Radio Boys
Less important and numerous than the extremely popular Airship Boys tales and series in the first half of the twentieth century, the smallish subgenre of boys' stories devoted to Radio Boys remains of some interest in the development of sf. As usual in almost all the series ultimately derived from Dime Novels and – very frequently – written and published to emulate the success of the ...
Heavy Metal
Glossy letter-size US colour Comic-strip magazine inspired by the French magazine Métal Hurlant and initially reprinting English-language versions of mainly sf and fantasy material from this and other French, Italian and Spanish sources alongside similar matter by select US contributors. Published monthly April 1977-December 1985, quarterly from the Winter (i.e., January) 1986 issue and then bimonthly from March 1989, ...
Vukcevich, Ray
(1946- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Rachel's Inheritance" in Pulphouse for Fall 1989, and who has remained prolific in short forms from that date, much of his work being darkly Equipoisal; his style has often been linked to that of Kelly Link (1969- ), though unlike Link he uses sf topoi with some frequency in tales like "By the Time ...
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 ...