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Mangels, Andy
(1966- ) US author of Ties to the Star Trek universe, beginning with Rogue (2001), like all his work in collaboration with Michael A Martin. The Roswell sequence of Ties to the Television sequence, beginning with Skeletons in the Closet (2002) with Michael A ...
Wow Comics
US Comic (1940-1948). 69 issues. Fawcett Publications. Artists include Ed Ashe, Jack Binder, Dick MacKay, Carl Pfeufer, C R Schaare, Marc Swayze and Bert Whitman. Script writers include Otto Binder (see Eando Binder), Dick Kraus, Dick MacKay and Joe Millard. Initially 68 pages; gradual reduction to 36 for #30-#41; 52 from #42. The comic began with 9 long strips, but from #6 it usually had only 4-5. Also ...
Robinson, Frederick
(? -? ) US author of The War of the Worlds: A Tale of the Year 2,000 AD (1914), a privately printed tale E F Bleiler describes as "ludicrously bad", but which has been cited several times for its thematic material: Utopian advances in Transportation and Technology; rampant Imperialism ...
Hayter, Alethea
(1911-2006) Egyptian-born editor and author, in the UK from early adulthood, never affiliated to an academic institution, whose nonfiction work (not unusually for a non-institutional scholar) was significantly innovative; she is probably best known for the bio-critical study, Opium and the Romantic Imagination (1968), which focuses attentively on Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Her early novels as by J C Fennessy include Eden Island (1941), whose ...
Morgan, Edwin
(1920-2010) Scottish poet, active from the mid 1930s; ranked somewhere above George Mackay Brown or Edwin Muir, and just below the pre-eminent Hugh MacDiarmid, in the pantheon of twentieth-century poets in Scotland. Though much of the work of many contemporary poets can be understood as cognate or intimate with Fantastika as a whole, Morgan is unusual among ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...