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Fawley, Wilbur
Working name of US author Wilbur Finley Fauley (1872-1942), who also published novels under his name as originally spelled, usually thrillers. In Shuddering Castle (1936), which is sf, radio Communication with Mars inspires an Alien visit to Earth. Its sojourn in the Gothic castle of the Scientist who aroused its interest gives some ...
Betiero, T J
(? -? ) US occultist who founded the Society of Oriental Mystics in 1902, and author whose sf novel, Nedoure Priestess of the Magi (Revised Edition): An Historical Romance of White and Black Magic: A Story That Reveals Wisdom of the Ancient East (1916), attempts to rationalize the occultish version of Telepathy at its heart through the suggestion that the "Mind-Sender" that sends the thoughts in question is a ...
Invisible Boy, The
Film (1957). Pan/MGM. Directed by Herman Hoffman. Written by Cyril Hume, based on "Invisible Boy" (23 June 1956 Saturday Evening Post; vt "The Brain Child" in Tomorrow's Gift, coll 1958) by Edmund Cooper. Cast includes Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster, Richard Eyer and Harold J Stone. 90 minutes. Black and white. / In this well-written and well-made ...
Lacroix, Paul
(1806-1884) French bibliographer and author who published under a variety of names, including P L Jacob and Bibliophile, and who was possibly an anonymous collaborator with Victor Hugo (1802-1885) and certainly did anonymous work for Alexandre Dumas. He is of sf interest for La Danse Macabre: histoire fantastique du XVème siecle (1832 as by P L Jacob, Bibliophile; trans Brian Stableford as ...
Shepherd, Peng
(1986- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Free Cake" in Weird Lies: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Strange Stories from Liars' League (anth 2013) edited by Katy Darby and Cherry Potts; her first novel, The Book of M (2018), a fabulist tale Equipoisal between sf and fantasy, depicts a Near Future world where humans intermittently lose their shadows, and with ...
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 ...