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Hinton, C H
(1853-1907) UK author, in Japan from 1887 (subsequent to an 1886 conviction and three-day sentence for bigamy) and in the USA from 1892. He began publishing work of speculative interest with What Is the Fourth Dimension? (Michaelmas 1880 Dublin University Magazine; 1884 chap), which was assembled with eight further essays and stories about the fourth and other Dimensions in space and time: five altogether in the first series of ...
Reed, Douglas
(1895-1976) UK author, in active service as a fighter pilot in World War One, in South Africa from 1947. He was initially best known for such controversial political/cultural studies as Insanity Fair (1938); the essays on World War Two assembled in All Our Tomorrows (coll 1942) culminate in a vision of Hermann Goering in 1979. In his sf novel, The Next Horizon (1945; vt ...
Schleinkofer, David
(1951-2025) US illustrator who studied at the Philadelphia College of Art in Pennsylvania (now The University of the Arts) and began to publish work of genre interest with his cover for Ballantine's The Fog Maiden (1976) by Jane Toombs, followed in the same year by the Ace Books first edition of Philip K Dick's The Preserving Machine (coll 1976). He was chosen to ...
Steele, Curtis
A House Name used by Popular Publications on the magazine Operator #5. From April 1934 to November 1935 Steele was Frederick C Davis, from December 1935 to March 1938 he was Emile Tepperman, and from then to the end in November/December 1939 he was Wayne Rogers. [PN/DRL]
Bueso, Emilio
(1974- ) Spanish author, considered one of the most important writers of new speculative fiction in Spain. He published eight Horror and sf novels, two collections and about thirty short stories, mainly horror tales; his work has been the subject of academic criticism. / His first novel was Noche cerrada ["Dead of Night"] (2007), a horror story set in the present day but related to an event ...
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 ...