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Blanche, John
(1948- ) UK artist who began to publish work of genre interest with an illustration in The Flights of Icarus (graph 1977) edited by Martyn Dean and Roger Dean. He soon became strongly associated with Games Workshop enterprises, contributing to White Dwarf with a cover for the June/July 1978 issue (the magazine's first full-colour cover) and later creating cover ...
Gárcia y Robertson, R
(1949- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Flying Mountain" in Amazing for May 1987; some of his short fiction is assembled as The Moon Maid and Other Fantastic Adventures (coll 1998). Much of his work, short and long, either involves Time Travel to various eras, or is set in them; his range of protagonists is, in ethnic terms, extremely wide, and his use of characters ...
Nelson, Ray Faraday
Working name of US author Radell Faraday Nelson (1931-2022), who also wrote as R F Nelson and R Faraday Nelson, sex books as M R N Elson ("Mr Nelson"), and once under the House Name Jeffrey Lord. He was active in both sf and detective genres, beginning to publish sf with "Turn off the Sky" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for August 1963. His short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" ...
Myers, Walter Dean
(1937-2014) US author whose first Young Adult tale, Brainstorm (1977 chap), set in the distant Near Future about a century hence, shows Earth's military attempting to solve the problem of a Ray targeted by Aliens at human populations, causing insanity. Some of his later work – much of it set in Harlem – is Fantasy, including ...
Zahn, Timothy
(1951- ) US author with a master's degree in physics who began publishing sf with "Ernie" in Analog for September 1979, and early proved himself an adept and productive creator of the problem-oriented Hard SF characteristic of that magazine. Some better examples of his work are assembled as Cascade Point (coll 1986), Time Bomb and Zahndry Others (coll 1988), ...
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 ...