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Fabian, Stephen E
(1930-2025) American artist, sometimes credited as Steve Fabian or simply Fabian. The self-trained Fabian first worked as an electronic engineer, but he began contributing art to Fanzines in the late 1960s and became a full-time professional artist in 1973. He did a number of covers and interior art for SF Magazines, mostly Amazing, Fantastic, and ...
Niffenegger, Audrey
(1963- ) US artist and author whose first full-length prose fiction, The Time-Traveler's Wife (2003), which was filmed as The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) and later made into a Television series as The Time Traveler's Wife (2022 6 episodes) by showrunner Steven Moffat, carries its protagonist willy-nilly through a number of ...
Makin, William J
(1893-1944) UK journalist and author who was in active service during World War One, a prolific writer of magazine fiction beginning in the 1920s, his first work of genre interest being "The Black Laugh" in Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror for January 1932. At least one of his Jonathan Jow tales, the novel-length "The Monster of the Loch" (20 January-3 March 1934 Pearson's Weekly) with Leslie Arliss ...
Moss, Mia V
(? - ) US author of the Near Future Mai Tais for the Lost: A Novella of The Nightingale Electric Company (2022), whose protagonist, a private detective named Marrow Nightingale, faces a family-romance murder in a City Under the Sea (see Zone) designed to protect the ultra rich from the consequences of the desolating ...
Adjei-Bremyah, Nana Kwame
(1991- ) US author who – after some nonfantastic work – began to publish work of genre interest with "The Finkelstein 5" in Printer's Row for July 2016. This and several other early stories, all intensely written and mostly set in surrealized Near Future venues, were assembled as Friday Black (coll 2018); the cruel arenas, and the dramas unfolded within them, sustainedly represent an understanding of America ...
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 ...