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Burns, Charles Tagged: Comics | Art | Author (1955- ) US Comic-strip artist and author, born in Washington, District of Columbia, and now based in Philadelphia. The drawing of his Fabulations and Mutant characters displays a strange, heavily stylized vision. His work has been widely published in Italy (notably in Vanity), Spain (El Vibora) and France (Métal Hurlant) as well as in his native USA (Heavy Metal, Village Voice, National Lampoon, Face and Death Rattle). His famous El Borbah strips, collected as Hard-Boiled Defective Stories (graph coll 1988; exp vt El Borbah 1999), feature an eponymous private eye who is not so much hard-boiled as rock-hard-boiled. Like the masked Lucha libre wrestlers of Mexico, El Borbah wears a jet-bla... Read more about Burns, Charles

Dirda, Michael Tagged: Author (1948- ) US editor, journalist and author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his journalism; as a Book World editor for the Washington Post (1978-2003) he was an influential advocate of sf as a form of literature worth serious attention, creating and editing a monthly sf column by various critics, as well as making room for individual reviews. He now writes a weekly column for the Post; his work also appears in the New York Review of Books and elsewhere. He is in his own right a genuinely competent sf critic, examples of his responses featuring in various collections, beginning with Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments (coll 2000). On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Story... Read more about Dirda, Michael

Timescape Books Tagged: Community US sf publishing imprint, issuing both hardcover and paperback, whose logo first appeared in March 1981 and whose last titles were published in 1984. Timescape Books was formed by Simon and Schuster and Pocket Books (owned by the former), for both of whom David G Hartwell had been director of sf, and he was set in charge of the new imprint. It was named after the resonant title of Gregory Benford's successful novel Timescape (1980), which had been published by Simon and Schuster; Benford was paid a licencing fee, and published two books – Against Infinity (1983) and Across the Sea of Suns (1984) – with the imprint. Timescape was prestigious and influential. However, despite publishing good b... Read more about Timescape Books