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Elliott, Elton T
(1956- ) US author, editor, reviewer and publisher whose solo sf debut was "Lighting Candles on the River Styx" (March 1991 Amazing). His early novel-length work appeared in the 1980s in collaboration with Richard E Geis, under the pseudonym Richard Elliott (whom see for discussion of these books). Written in collaboration with Doug Odell, Elliott's Prince of Europe ...
Noiseman Soundinsect
Japanese animated film (1997). Original title Onkyo Seimeitai Noiseman; vt Noiseman Sound Insect; vt Noiseman. Studio 4°C. Directed by Koji Morimoto. Written by Hideo Morinaka. Voice cast includes Etsuko Kozakura, Hideki Ogihara and Maya Okamoto. 16 minutes. Colour. / A Scientist is unable to control his newly created Monster, who finds another ...
Ronald, Bruce W
(1931-2024) US advertising man, actor and author. His Our Man in Space (1965 dos) is a Space Opera a little reminiscent of Robert A Heinlein's Double Star (February-April 1956 Astounding; 1956) in its story of an actor unhappily spying on behalf of Earth. With John Jakes and Claire Strauch he wrote the musical comedy Dracula, Baby ...
Blair, Kate
(? - ) UK-born author, in Canada from 2008. In her first novel, the Equipoisal Young Adult Transferral (2015), a medical solution (see Medicine) designed to deal with all diseases has deeply affected very Near Future London. The solution, to transfer diseases ...
Niven, Larry
Working name of US author Laurence van Cott Niven (1938- ). He was born in California, where he set many of his stories, and gained a BA in mathematics from Washburn University, Kansas. From his first publication, "The Coldest Place" in If for December 1964, he set his mark on the US sf field as a Hard SF writer of remarkable vigour and inventiveness, soon winning four short-fiction Hugos: for ...
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 ...