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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 ...
Crash Comics
US Comic (1940). Tem Publishing Co Inc. 5 issues. Artists include Pagsilang Isip, Rudolf Johnson and Jack Kirby. Script writers include Jack Kirby and Robert Turner. 68 pages per issue, each with 9-11 strips of varying lengths, plus a two-page text story. Stories were a mixed-bag of genres, but sf and fantasy dominated (mainly because for #1-#3 the Strongman strip was 19 pages long and the Shangra 10 pages). / "And ...
Holocaust Fiction
The term Holocaust is used in this encyclopedia to designate the fictionally popular variety of catastrophe which is directly caused by human or occasionally Alien action, intentional or otherwise. It is not normally here used to refer to the Holocaust, which is generally understood to refer to Germany's attempted extermination of the Jews of Europe (along with Slavs, gypsies, mental "defectives", etc) during ...
Pseudonyms
Reasons for using pseudonyms are very various, but almost always involve concealment. So obvious is this that it might seem to go without saying; but in fact many reference books altogether disregard the factor of concealment in their use of the term, and often designate as pseudonyms variations upon real names made to heighten impact (C J Cherry, for instance, writes as C J Cherryh), or to shorten or simplify a spelling (Francis A Jaworski wrote as Frank ...
Eklund, Gordon
(1945- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Dear Aunt Annie" in Fantastic for April 1970, though he had earlier also published considerable fan fiction (see Fandom), all of which was collected as Eklundia Stories: The Complete Fan Fiction of Gordon Eklund (coll 2013 chap). In the early and most prolific years of his career he published dozens of stories in sf magazines, much of ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...