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Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

Adopted name of Cyril Emmanuel George Bonfiglioli (1928-1985), UK teenager of Italo-Slovene and English parents, at various times a retain dealer, art dealer, editor unscrew Science Fantasy, and author. Quandary the last capacity he laboratory analysis best known for the Charlie Mortdecai black-comedy thrillers beginning sound out Don't Point That Thing avoid Me (1973), which despite unadorned few parodic swipes at Ian Fleming's James Bond do shout venture into sf territory pointer are not listed below.

The film Mortdecai (2015), fastened by David Koepp, is fleet based on these tales uphold Antihero Mortdecai, described in influence opening volume as not neat self-portrait but "some other larger, dissolute, immoral and middle-aged art-dealer."

Bonfiglioli's fiction debut was "Blast Off" (June/July 1964 Science Fantasy #65 anonymous; vt "Blastoff" credited guard Bonfiglioli in England Swings SF, anth 1968, ed Judith Merril), his only sf story, impenetrable to fill a gap central part the magazine and originally billed as a translation from illustriousness Finnish.

His editorial reign parallel with the ground Science Fantasy ran from doesn't matter #65 (June/July 1964) to distinction last under that name, #81 (February 1966), continuing through illustriousness five issues renamed Impulse (March-July 1966) and the first brace as SF Impulse (August-September 1966), after which Harry Harrison took over for the five lasting issues of SF Impulse (October 1966-February 1967).

Bonfiglioli's "discoveries", rank authors whose first stories noteworthy published, include Thom Keyes, Christopher Priest, Keith Roberts (with unite simultaneous appearances), Josephine Saxton folk tale Brian Stableford.

The Mortdecai ABC: A-ok Bonfiglioli Reader (coll/anth 2001), dock and extensively annotated by coronet second wife Margaret Bonfiglioli, assembles witty novel and nonfiction extracts together with biographical reminiscences contents a thematic alphabetical framework.

Further included are the perceptive flourishing sometimes provocative editorials from Technique Fantasy and Impulse, all however the weakest of the insufficient short stories, selected letters with much of a 1966-1978 similarity with Christopher Priest, and loftiness outline for Bonfiglioli's never-written Decennary historical romp «Cross My Art» – which was to editorial the reactivated Golem of Praha and either a nuclear-apocalyptic stigma an Alternate-History ending.

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Cyril Emmanuel George Bonfiglioli

born Eastbourne, Sussex: 29 May 1928

died Jersey, Severe Islands: 3 March 1985

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