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Longyear, Barry B
(1942-2025) US author and editor who ran a printing company with his wife before beginning to write in 1977, beginning to publish work of genre interest with "The Tryouts" in Asimov's for November/December 1978. Before his 1981 hospitalization for alcoholism and addiction to prescription drugs – an experience which formed the basis of his non-sf novel Saint Mary Blue (1988) – he had already published prolifically, sometimes as by Frederick ...
Science Fiction Review (Monthly), The
Digest-sized semiprofessional critical Magazine (see Semiprozine) published by Bran Dougal. Edited by Martin Last, with Baird Searles and Don Yee as associate editors. Twenty monthly issues, March 1975 to October 1976, with #17/#18 for July/August 1976 being a double issue. / The first issue was titled The Science Fiction Review and featured reviews by all three ...
Collins, Robert
(1972- ) UK author of The Soul Corporation (2004), set in a Near Future dominated by a vast Corporation whose control of things is manifested primarily through advertisements (see Advertising), and which is involved in a Genetic Engineering conspiracy. [JC]
Ore, Rebecca
Pseudonym of US author Rebecca Bard Brown (1948- ), in Nicaragua from 2010, who began publishing sf with "Projectile Weapons and Wild Alien Water" for Amazing in May 1986; many of her stories, which are strong and varied, appear in Alien Bootlegger and Other Stories (coll 1993), though she probably remains best known for the Becoming Alien Trilogy, Becoming Alien (1988), Being Alien (1989) and ...
Adams, Henry Cadwallader
(1817-1899) UK minister and author, most of whose fiction was upliftingly composed for boys. His only work of genre interest is Sivan the Sleeper: A Tale of All Time (1861); its eponymous Ancient Egyptian protagonist awakens (see Sleeper Awakes) and views several subsequent eras. [JC]
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 ...