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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
SF Digest
UK small A4-size magazine. One undated issue, (June) 1976, published by New English Library; edited by Julie Davis. / SF Digest was to have been a quarterly successor to Science Fiction Monthly, also edited by Julie Davis since January 1975, but was doomed even before its single issue appeared by the publisher's decision to concentrate on books rather than sf magazines. SF Digest's format was arguably superior to that of the ...
Gateway S-F Magazine
A low- (and eventually non-) paying magazine which existed in both print and online editions, published by B Joseph Fekete Jr, North Hollywood, California; edited initially by Lawrence Green on the print edition and subsequently with an overall Editor-in-Chief (from 2003) John A M Darnell. The print issue ran for six issues, Winter 2000 to Summer 2003, all Digest size, saddle-stapled except for the last issue which was perfect bound, 144 pages. The online issue ...
Cooper, Karina
(1982- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with the Dark Mission Alternate History paranormal romance sequence opening with Before the Witches (2011) and – published in the same month – the first full-length series novel Blood of the Wicked (2011). A second sequence, The St. Croix Chronicles beginning with Tarnished (2012) blends historical urban ...
Muller, Julius W
(1867-1930) US author, probably born George Washington Muller. His lightly fictionalized Future War text, The Invasion of America: A Fact Story Based on the Inexorable Mathematics of War (1916), describes a successful Near Future Invasion of America by a European coalition dominated by Germany. [JC]
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 ...