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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 ...
Keefer, Lowell B
(1884-1971) US author of Visitors from Outer Space (1969), in which Aliens impact Earth. [JC]
Undersea Kingdom
US Serial Film (1936). Republic Pictures. Directed by B Reeves Eason and Joseph Kane. Written by John Rathmell, Maurice Geraghty and Oliver Drake, based on a story by Tracy Knight and John Rathmell. Cast includes Lee Van Atta, Monte Blue, John Bradford, Ray "Crash" Corrigan, William Farnum, C Montague Shaw and Lois Wilde. 12 episodes, 226 minutes in total. Black and white. / Professor Norton's (Shaw) (see Scientists) new ...
Incident at Raven's Gate
Australian film (1988; vt Encounter at Raven's Gate). Hemdale. Directed by Rolf de Heer. Written by Marc Rosenberg, de Heer. Cast includes Vince Gil, Celin Griffen, Saturday Rosenberg, Ritchie Singer and Steven Vidler. 89 minutes. Colour. / Australian cinema has produced a number of under-appreciated genre items, such as The Last Wave (1977) and Razorback (1984). This is another, a ...
Collins, Warwick
(1948-2013) South African-born biologist and author, in UK from 1959, son of Robin Cranford; most of his novels are Technothrillers like the Challenge sequence of Near Future adventures set mainly at sea and comprising Challenge (1990), New World (1991) and Death of an Angel (1993). Of greater sf interest is Computer One (1993; ...
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 ...