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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Moore, C L
(1911-1987) US author, collaborator with Henry Kuttner whom she married in 1940, and with whom she had collaborated since 1937 (see below). Before her intimate working association with Kuttner, she had, however, already achieved fame with her first story, "Shambleau" in Weird Tales for November 1933, a femme fatale tale of a psychic Vampire set on a ...
Out 1
French film (1971; vt Out 1: Noli Me Tangere). Sunshine Productions, Stéphane Tchalgadjieff. Written and directed by Jacques Rivette, in collaboration with Suzanne Schiffman; loosely based on Histoire de Treize (1833-1835) by Honoré de Balzac, with dialogue largely improvised by the cast. Cast includes Juliet Berto, Françoise Fabian, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, ...
TV Zone
UK oversized Media Magazine printed on high-quality paper. Published by Visual Imagination Limited. Editors were Anthony Brown, Lee Binding, Jan Vincent Rudski and Tom Spilsbury, although not in chronological order. 231 monthly issues, 1988 to 2008, with the final edition being a double issue. / This title originally focused mainly on Fantasy and sf Television, later expanding its scope to ...
Moody, H A
(? -? ) US author of an unusually intense Lost Race tale, The City Without a Name (1898), in which a white explorer, disguising himself as an Indian, discovers an Incan City whose king is in fact a woman in disguise. The land is surrounded by Monsters. They fall in love, marry, have a son, she is killed, her husband escapes. Twenty years later the son must ...
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 ...