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Goodchild, George
(1888-1969) UK thriller and adventure author and playwright. His first sf novel, The Eye of Abu (1927) as by Alan Dare, was an Atlantean (see Atlantis) Lost-World novel relating the discovery of the Fountain of Youth. As Goodchild he followed this with The Monster of Grammont (1927), marginally sf; The Emperor of Hallelujah Island (1930), about a kingdom of criminals; ...
Jennings, Gary
(1928-1999) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Myrrha" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for September 1962; at virtually the same time he published his first book March of the Robots: From the Manikins of Antiquity to the Space Robots of Tomorrow (1962), a nonfiction study of Robots for the Young Adult market. For some years Jennings published stories ...
Diskin, Lahna F
(? - ) US academic, author and critic, for many years a professor of English until she retired in 1999. She published two useful books on Theodore Sturgeon: the Bibliography Theodore Sturgeon: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980), and the Starmont House study Theodore Sturgeon (1981 chap) as Lahna Diskin. From 1982 to 1985 she also reviewed for ...
Georges, Karoline
(1970- ) Canadian artist and author whose first book of sf interest, the Near Future novella La Mue de l'hermaphrodite ["The Moulting of the Hermaphrodite"] (2001) follows the life of a hermaphrodite born through assisted reproduction technology with something unclearly approximating Superpowers, though they are unused in their solitude (see ...
Rein, Harold
(1926-2011) US author of an extremely grim Post-Holocaust novel, Few Were Left (1955), whose suicidal protagonist is trapped with others Underground, in the New York subway system, after the bomb has dropped. He fails, after several adventures, to escape. A Television version for Armchair Theatre broadcast 30 November 1958 as "Underground", was set ...
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 ...