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Murray, Will
Working name of US author William Patrick Murray (1953-2026), who showed an interest throughout his career in Superheroes of the Pulp tradition (on which he was a known authority) such as Doc Savage, about which figure he wrote the nonfiction Secrets of Doc Savage (1981 chap). In this context he had been literary agent for Lester Dent's estate since 1979. ...
Scarlet Street
US Letter-size saddle-stapled Media Magazine printed on middle-grade paper. Publisher: Jessie Lilley as Scarlet Street Inc. Editor: Richard Valley (1949-2007). 55 issues, July 1991 to June 2006. Publication schedule was irregular but approximately quarterly. / Starting life as a black and white offset Fanzine in 1991, Scarlet Street soon achieved Semiprozine status, gaining considerable ...
Clark, Cumberland
(1862-1941) UK author, frequently on William Shakespeare, whose Dystopia, Fairy Tales of Socialism (1927), is a humorous Satire of Bolshevism. [JC]
White, Mary Alice
(1920-2000) US psychologist, academic, and Director of the Laboratory for the Psychological Study of Telecommunication at Columbia University, in which capacity she called as early as 1981 for the educational use of Computers in a world where print learning was becoming obsolete. She was the author of a modestly fictionalized Utopia, The Land of the Possible: A Report on the First Visit to Prire (1979), a pacific land ...
Applegate, K A
(1956- ) US author of sf and fantasy for children, almost exclusively through the medium of three extended series, which include some inbuilt sub-series. She is best-known for the Animorphs sequence, beginning with Animorphs: The Invasion (1996) and ending with Animorphs: The Beginning (2001), featuring the exploits of a group of adolescent children who use their Shapeshifter powers, which have been ...
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 ...