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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 ...
Déon, Natashia
(1978- ) US attorney and author whose first novel, Grace (2016), skirts the fantastic through assonances among an extended Black family for several generations beginning in antebellum America (see Slavery). Her second novel, The Perishing (2021), traces the complex life of an Immortal woman whose conscious life begins at the age of sixteen in 1930s Los Angeles (see ...
Strange Suspense Stories
US Comic (1954-1965). 58 issues. Charlton Comics. Artists include Jon D'Agostino, Steve Ditko, Dick Giordano, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Bill Molno. Script writers include Joe Gill and Carl Memling. 36 pages (except #37, a double issue). Usually 4-5 long strips per issue, plus 1-2 short strips (occasionally non-fiction) and a short text story. #75-#77 are dominated ...
Hine, Muriel
(1874-1949) UK author, active from 1910, whose The Seven Lovers and Other Tales (coll 1927) contains some fantasy, and whose marginal Scientific Romance The Island Forbidden to Man (1946) seems to espouse the feminist Utopia hinted at in the title (see Feminism), but does not give the Island civilization initially espoused long for this world, ...
Hecht, Ben
(1894-1964) US journalist, playwright, screenwriter, publisher and author, active from 1910 in Chicago with Bohemian literary circles as a journalist before becoming exceedingly successful in Hollywood as a screenwriter, the first of his seventy or more scripts dating from the late 1920s, all nonfantastic, many for films that have become famous. His writings are particularly notable for their cynicism, Iconoclasm and irony. Many of his short stories border on ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...