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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Blunt, James
(? - ) Author, apparently UK, of Utopia Revisited (1996), a Utopian fiction set in the world created by Thomas More for his Utopia (1516). [JC]
Schwab, B Linn
(? - ) US author of Sentinels (2012), a Young Adult Space Opera focusing on its young protagonists' fraught experiences as they move from students to full participants (see Military SF) in a galactic war. The tale is the first volume in a projected series. [JC]
Hoffman, Eva
(1945- ) Polish academic and author, in Canada and the USA from the late 1950s (she is a citizen of both countries), but for many years in the UK. Hoffman is best known as a memoirist and as a historian of Jewish life and death during World War Two, her nonfiction titles including Exit Into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe (1993), Stetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews ...
Ewers, Hanns Heinz
(1871-1943) German author, spy in Mexico and the USA in World War One, and early member of the Nazi Party, though he soon alienated its leaders through his insistence that his and their obsession with matters of Blood led inevitably (and properly) to psychic and literal vampirism (see Decadence; Vampires). Supermen predominate in his fiction, ...
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 ...