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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Grouling, Thomas Edward
(1940- ) US author and academic whose sf novel, Project 12 (1962), deals with a realistically described though ultimately abortive attempt to launch a Spaceship. [JC/DRL]
Mayumura Taku
Working name of Takuji Murakami (1934-2019) a Japanese author, late-night radio personality and sometime translator who found a new audience outside the genre with his last great work. After graduating in economics from Osaka University, he spent six years working for a large ceramics company, before drifting into sf authorship for Uchūjin and Yasutaka Tsutsui's Null magazine. He would draw ...
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster
Film (1965; vt Mars Invades Puerto Rico; vt Duel of the Space Monsters). Vernon-Seleca Films. Directed by Robert Gaffney. Written by R H W Dillard, George Garrett and John Rodenbeck. Cast includes Lou Cutell, Marilyn Hanold, James Karen, Nancy Marshall and Robert Reilley. 79 minutes. Black and white. / After a ruinous atomic war on Mars, a few survivors led by Princess Marcuzan (Hanold) and her assistant Dr ...
SF Horizons
UK critical journal edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison, with Tom Boardman acting as business manager. Digest-sized; two 64pp issues only, Spring 1964 and Winter 1965. An early attempt to establish a serious critical sf journal – and as such a precursor of Foundation – SF Horizons carried critical articles ...
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 ...