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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
DeFalco, Tom
(1950- ) US Comics author, editor, and intermittently (he was fired twice) a senior executive with Marvel Comics. Most of his comics work of sf interest has been with Marvel, where he scripted the {Amazing Spider-Man} in 1984-1986 and 1995-1998, the {Fantastic Four} briefly with Roger Stern in 1987 and solo 1991-1996, and others. He was editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics 1987-1994. As an author of prose he has ...
Taylor, John
(1931-2012) UK physicist and author, chiefly of popular science books, whose short fiction of genre interest is confined to "Survival of the Fittest" in Beyond This Horizon (anth 1973) edited by Christopher Carrell. The nonfiction Black Holes: The End of the Universe? (1973) includes some fanciful and implausible speculation on the properties of Black Holes that verges on sf. Taylor ventured out of his areas of undoubted expertise ...
Brownjohn, Alan
(1931-2024) UK poet, politician, teacher, man-of-letters and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "A Contest in Crime" in Young Winter's Tales 2 (anth 1971) edited by M R Hodgkin; he also wrote as by John Berrington. His poetry – and relatively infrequent fiction – was irradiated by a wry, compassionate, occasionally bitter socialist perspective on the course of British history; in this he was like and unlike Philip Larkin (1922-1985), as ...
Flurb
US Online Magazine published and edited by Rudy Rucker, appearing twice yearly from Fall 2006 to Spring 2012. Although it was a non-paying market, Rucker managed to acquire stories, or "Astonishing Tales" as he called them, of remarkable quality from leading authors; and the stories remain online, freely accessible. To some extent Rucker liked to receive idiosyncratic fiction that might not immediately sell elsewhere, but ...
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 ...