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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
US-based nonprofit organization founded in 1982 to promote and recognize achievement in the study of the fantastic, most members being authors, academic students of Fantastika, or both. For many years the chief IAFA activities were organizing the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) held annually in Orlando, Florida, since 1980 (with Brian W Aldiss as Permanent Special Guest while still able to travel); ...
Lamplugh, Lois
(1921-2013) UK editor and author whose Mandog (1972) novelizes Peter Dickinson's script for his six-part Television tale for children, produced in 1972. [JC]
Bailey, Charles W
(1929-2012) US author and journalist who collaborated with Fletcher Knebel (whom see for details) on Seven Days in May (1962). [JC]
Dail, C C
(1851-1902) US lawyer, poet and author whose Willmoth sequence, beginning with Willmoth the Wanderer, Or The Man from Saturn (1890; rev vt Willmoth the Wanderer 1891), is a genuine oddity. Though told with no great skill, its narrative, purporting to be that of Willmoth the Saturnian as told towards the end of his several-million-year lifespan, is an eventful affair. Willmoth proceeds from Saturn to Venus (via Antigravity) and, ...
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 ...