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Intelligence
Intelligence is necessarily one of the issues discussed in the entries on Aliens, Anti-Intellectualism in SF, Cybernetics, Mutants and Superman. Machine intelligence is discussed under Computers and Robots; for amplification of human ...
Niswonger, Charles Elliott
(1868-1918) US author of a Lost Race novel set on the Island of Feminine (see Islands), where women are Immortal and men (few in number) are slaves; the ship-wrecked narrator becomes enamoured with the Island's queen, who dies when she requites his love, as immortality and Sex do not mix. The island sinks. [JC]
Lauria, Frank
(1935-2022) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with Doctor Orient (1970), opening the Dr Owen Orient sequence of occult thrillers in urban-fantasy vein, in which the eponymous investigator – gifted with Psi Powers – tangles with such expected menaces as Vampires, voodoo, Werewolves and Zombies, these threats often taking ...
Favro, Terri
(? - ) Canadian advertising copywriter and author, active from around 2005, much of whose fiction is nonfantastic, including her first novel, The Proxy Bride (2013). She may have begun publishing work of genre interest only with "Let Slip the Sluicegates of War, Hydro-Girl" in Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction (anth 2016) edited by Dominik Parisien (see Steampunk). The three storyteller ...
Nova Express
US Amateur Magazine published by White Car Publications, Houston, Texas, edited by Michael Sumbera to #12 (Fall/Winter 1992) and thereafter by Lawrence Person. 22 issues from Spring 1987 to Summer 2002, originally three per year but irregular from 1990 on. It began inauspiciously, calling itself the "'Zine of the Avant Garde", stating it wished to "give people exposure" and determined to use the new technology to make the magazine something other than ...
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 ...