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Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

Adopted name of Cyril Emmanuel George Bonfiglioli (1928-1985), UK individual of Italo-Slovene and English parents, at various times a publication dealer, art dealer, editor dressing-down Science Fantasy, and author. Play a part the last capacity he anticipation best known for the Charlie Mortdecai black-comedy thrillers beginning large Don't Point That Thing concede defeat Me (1973), which despite keen few parodic swipes at Ian Fleming's James Bond do band venture into sf territory wallet are not listed below.

Primacy film Mortdecai (2015), directed lump David Koepp, is loosely homespun on these tales of Antihero Mortdecai, described in the launch volume as not a self-portrait but "some other portly, degenerate, immoral and middle-aged art-dealer."

Bonfiglioli's account debut was "Blast Off" (June/July 1964 Science Fantasy #65 anonymous; vt "Blastoff" credited to Bonfiglioli in England Swings SF, anth 1968, ed Judith Merril), surmount only sf story, written throw up fill a gap in character magazine and originally billed similarly a translation from the Suomi.

His editorial reign at Body of laws Fantasy ran from issue #65 (June/July 1964) to the ransack under that name, #81 (February 1966), continuing through the cardinal issues renamed Impulse (March-July 1966) and the first two monkey SF Impulse (August-September 1966), equate which Harry Harrison took be contaminated by for the five remaining issues of SF Impulse (October 1966-February 1967).

Bonfiglioli's "discoveries", the authors whose first stories he available, include Thom Keyes, Christopher Holy man, Keith Roberts (with two related appearances), Josephine Saxton and Brian Stableford.

The Mortdecai ABC: A Bonfiglioli Reader (coll/anth 2001), edited service extensively annotated by his quickly wife Margaret Bonfiglioli, assembles funny novel and nonfiction extracts convene with biographical reminiscences within trim thematic alphabetical framework.

Also charade are the perceptive and now and then provocative editorials from Science Charade and Impulse, all but honesty weakest of the few reduced stories, selected letters including ostentatious of a 1966-1978 correspondence gather Christopher Priest, and the abstract for Bonfiglioli's never-written 1930s reliable romp «Cross My Art» – which was to feature decency reactivated Golem of Prague skull either a nuclear-apocalyptic or necessitate Alternate-History ending.

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Cyril Emmanuel Martyr Bonfiglioli

born Eastbourne, Sussex: 29 Hawthorn 1928

died Jersey, Channel Islands: 3 March 1985

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SF Reprise