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Interzone
UK Semiprozine which began in Spring 1982, A4 format, saddle-stapled, continuously numbered, on Slick paper from #41, November 1990, quarterly to #24, Summer 1988; bimonthly to #34, March/April 1990; monthly to April 2003 (with combined June/July 2002 issue). Thereafter bimonthly, but with only a Spring 2004 issue before the schedule restarted with September/October 2004. It shrank to small standard size (9.5 x 6.75 ins; 240 x 170 mm) ...
Strickland, W W
(1851-1938) UK translator and author, an atheist and anarchist in politics who, disaffected with his native land, lived abroad from around 1912. His two works of some sf interest are Sacrifice; Or, the Daughter of the Sun (1920), a tale with Lost Race implications, and the more ambitious Vishnu; Or, the Planet of the Sevenfold Unity (1928), in which a distant planet, whose inhabitants are divided into seven ...
Eidolon
Australian Semiprozine, published from North Perth, Western Australia, by Eidolon Publications, quarterly (but later somewhat irregular) from #1, Autumn 1990 (published in May 1990) to #29/30, Autumn (May) 2000, edited by Jeremy G Byrne (1964-2021), Keira McKenzie, Robin Pen, Richard Scriven, Jonathan Strahan, Chris Stronach to #6 (October 1991); thereafter only Byrne, Scriven and Strahan to ...
May, Emmet C
(1875-1947) US businessman and author, of some sf interest for White Bear and Gold: Tall Tales by the Wandering Jew (coll of linked stories 1931) (see Wandering Jew), which contains a range of stories, from examples of the Tall Tale [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] through faux-legends on to the depiction of a Lost Race discovered under ...
Hughes, Riley
(1914-1981) US author of a Ruined Earth tale, The Hills Were Liars (1955), an avowedly Catholic tale in which eight believers, many decades after the terminal wars begin in the 1960s, attempt to work out a way for the human species to survive under God. [JC]
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...