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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Vaughan, Thomas Hunter
(? -? ) UK author, seemingly active only during the teens of the twentieth century; of some sf interest is The Gates of the Past (1911), a tale of Reincarnation in which Ancient Egyptians manifest themselves in London under the sway of an occult psychologist/magus named Ramon Cafara. [JC]
Carr, John Dickson
(1906-1977) US author, mostly resident until 1948 in the UK, where many of his famous early detective novels, such as The Three Coffins (1935; vt The Hollow Man 1935), Death-Watch (1935) and The Ten Teacups (1937; vt The Peacock Feather Murders 1937) as by Carter Dickson, and others, are evocatively set. (However, some of his noteworthy early borderline-fantasy detections, such as The Waxworks Murder [1932; vt ...
Moebius Trip
US Fanzine (1969-1980) edited from Peoria, Illinois by Edward C Connor. 28 issues from 1960 to July 1980, issues #17-#28 (including the double issue #23/#24) being retitled S.F. Echo or Moebius Trip Library's S.F. Echo for Connor's much earlier fanzine Science Fiction Echo, launched June 1942. / Moebius Trip was a substantial, duplicated fanzine, unusually bound in paperback book format rather than in standard US quarto size. Contents ...
Monster Times, The
Cinema Semiprozine, tabloid-size and printed on low-quality newsprint paper; 48 issues appeared from 1972 to 1976. Published by The Monster Times Publishing Company. Publication schedule was initially biweekly for the first fourteen issues, then monthly until 1975. It switched to bimonthly publication that year, although the final few issues appeared on an erratic basis. Editors for the first few issues included Allen Asherman ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...