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Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame
Career Award for life achievement in Comics, so named in honour of Will Eisner (1917-2005), creator of the comic The Spirit (1940-1952) and author of influential analyses of comic art and narrative; presented annually since 1988 (with 1990 skipped owing to administrative complications); since 1991 the presentations have taken place at the San Diego Comic-Con Convention. Also included below are the ...
Colgan, Jennifer
(? - ) US author of romances and supernatural fictions, plus at least one full-blown fantasy, Conjured in Flames (2005). She should not be confused with the Scottish author of comic romances and Doctor Who titles, Jenny Colgan. [JC]
Bourbon Penn
US Online Magazine, first issue published February 2011, with usually 2-3 issues a year (but only one in 2014 and 2015). Also available in ebook and print editions, the latter under the Blurb imprint. Edited by Erik Secker. Each issue has 5-7 short stories, with the occasional novelette; in terms of genre, they are broadly speculative fiction, favouring weird Horror – the website's description is "slipstream, ...
Korn, M F
(1958- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Trouble with Xenodes" in Weird Stories for January 1989. Though largely inclined toward fantasy and Horror he has written a number of slightly desultory sf stories, most of them assembled in The Spectral Carnival Show and Other Stories (coll 1998; rev vt Aliens, Minibikes and Other Staples of Suburbia 2001) and ...
Grant, Michael
Pseudonym of US author Michael Reynolds (1954- ), married to K A Applegate, with whom he has collaborated uncredited on titles in her Animorphs sequence (see her entry for details). Of sf interest is his Gone sequence of Near Future Young Adult tales, set in a shattered Dystopian America, and comprising Gone (2008), ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...