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Pogue, David
(1963- ) US editor and author of Hard Drive (1993), in which a Near Future infection of the world's Computers by a virus threatens to end civilization. [JC]
Lamming, George
(1927-2022) Barbadian poet, journalist and author, five of his six novels being nonfantastic; he remains best-known for the first of these, In the Castle of my Skin (1953), the semi-autobiographical narration of a Barbadian childhood, which has remained extremely influential. Water With Berries (1971) conveys a sense of the intermixture of lives and modes of a contemporary Black activist with a vivid, quasi-allegorical sense that each of these lives is inherently ...
Ball, Frank P
(1908-1970) US solicitor, publisher and author whose self-published Utopia, My Wondrous Dream (1923), may be set in Atlantis, as its protagonist falls asleep while reading Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882), though his adventures soon depart radically from any Donnellian hypothesis, taking off from Jonathan ...
Marlowe, Gabriel S
Pseudonym of Austrian-born theatre director, screenwriter and author Gabriel Beer-Hofmann (1901-1971), active from before 1920 in the London scene. As G S Marlowe in the UK and as Gabriel Marlowe in America, he wrote one novel of sf interest, I Am Your Brother (1935), the eponymous sibling being a Monster – a victim of an experiment in Eugenics gone savagely wrong, with an enormous forked tongue and other telling ...
Davids, Paul
(1947- ) US artist, filmmaker and author with Hollace Davids of a set of Young Adult Star Wars Ties (see Star Wars) beginning with Star Wars #1: The Glove of Darth Vader (1992); they also wrote together a Graphic Novel, The Fires of Pele (graph 1986), which purports to ...
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 ...