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Avenger, The
Pulp Magazine published by Street & Smith for 24 issues, September 1939 to September 1942. Publication was monthly to July 1940, then bimonthly to the end. Edited by John Nanovic. / Each issue of The Avenger featured a short novel by Paul Ernst writing as Kenneth Robeson, plus short ...
Frances, Stephen
(1917-1989) UK publisher and pulp author who lived in Spain from the early 1950s. In the mid-1940s he founded his own publishing company, Pendulum Publications, which released a variety of genre fiction, including sf. His sf line was the Pendulum "Popular" Spacetime Series, whose editor, Frank Arnold, introduced Frances to John Carnell, a meeting that led to the birth of New Worlds in 1946; ...
Hatch, Gerald
Pseudonym of US fan and author Dave Foley (1932-1963), whose sf novel, The Day the Earth Froze (1963), was one of a series published by Monarch Books on similar themes, including Charles L Fontenay's The Day the Oceans Overflowed (1964) and Christopher Anvil's The Day the Machines Stopped (1964). [JC]
Bok, Hannes
Pseudonym of US illustrator, author, and astrologer Wayne Francis Woodard (1914-1964). Sf Illustration has had very few mavericks: Bok was possibly the most famous. He did not let editors and publishers dictate the way he designed his work, and thereby lost hundreds of commissions. As Brian W Aldiss notes in Science Fiction Art (1975), he was one of the field's "masters of the macabre", a stylist ...
Burdick, Eugene L
(1918-1965) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Log the Man Dead" in Argosy for May 1953, and who was the author of several extremely popular novels, both alone and in collaboration. Of his Near Future sf novels, the best-known remains Fail-Safe (13-27 October 1962 Saturday Evening Post; 1962) with Harvey Wheeler, ...
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 ...