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SF International
US Digest-size Semiprozine published by Andromeda Press, Newbury Park, California and edited by William H Wheeler. Intended as a bimonthly magazine presenting translations of stories from around the world. Countries represented included Italy, Germany, China, Serbia, Holland as well as Great Britain, Australia and the USA but, as has happened every time anyone has introduced an international sf magazine (see ...
Hathway, Alan
(1906-1977) Author, presumably US, known only for his four 1941 contributions to the Doc Savage universe, all under the usual House Name for that series: Kenneth Robeson. These began with "The Devil's Playground" (January 1941 Doc Savage; 1970). The remaining episodes – "The Rustling Death" (May 1941 ...
MacLaren, Bernard
(? - ) UK author whose sf novel Day of Misjudgment (1956) unusually represents the domination of society by Computers as more of a blessing than a curse, though the Walpurgisnacht setting of the tale may explain the reversal of values. [JC]
FJA's Monsterland
Letter-size Cinema magazine printed on newsprint-quality paper, with some glossy pages. Published by New Media Publishing. Editor: Forrest J Ackerman to #9, then James Van Hise. 17 issues, February 1985 to Fall 1987. Publication schedule was nominally bimonthly, but in fact fairly erratic. / This was Ackerman's return to Monster Movie magazines after the demise of ...
Norden, Eric
(? - ) US journalist and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Primal Solution" in Cavalier for January 1968, in which a Jewish scientist develops mental Time Travel, inhabits the mind of Hitler and tries to get him to commit Suicide – unsuccessfully, creating instead within Hitler his hatred for Jews. Norden assembled his short work, including this story, in ...
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 ...