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Conway, Gerard F
(1952-2026) US author informally known as Gerry Conway who began his career in Comics, writing some non-fantastic scripts for Marvel Comics, and editing the short-lived 1973 weird fiction magazine The Haunt of Horror and writing for the 1973-1975 anthology Comic Worlds Unknown. He also worked extensively for ...
Original Anthologies
An original Anthology is an anthology in book format of stories that have not been previously published, and such volumes have played an important role in sf Publishing, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. For early and pioneering examples of original anthologies, see the broader discussion under Anthology. / This encyclopedia gives entries to original-anthology series devoted to sf and (with one ...
McGuire, John J
(1917-1981) US author best known for his collaborations with H Beam Piper on the sf action novel Crisis in 2140 (February-March 1953 Astounding as "Null-ABC"; 1957) and on A Planet for Texans (March 1957 Fantastic Universe as "Lone Star Planet"; 1958), Planetary Romance in the form of a Western set on New ...
Miasek, Don
(? - ) Canadian anthologist and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "For Mankind" in Polar Borealis for January 2020; his first novel, Pale Grey Dot (2024), which is a Space Opera set on a Space Station orbiting Jupiter, requires its cast to modify its Cyberpunk ...
Bearne, C G
(1939- ) UK editor of the sf anthology Vortex: New Soviet Science Fiction (anth 1970), assembling seven stories by five contemporary Soviet authors, including Aleksandr and Sergei Abramov and Arkady and Boris Strugatski. [DRL] see also: Russia. /
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 ...