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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 ...
Neill, A S
(1883-1973) UK educationist, in active service during World War One, who gained fame for revolutionary theories about the teaching of children and who cofounded the International School – which operated initially on the Continent from 1921, then (from 1924) under the name Summerhill in the UK – to put them into practice. Fictionalized accounts like A Dominie's Log (1916) and its sequels popularized his arguments, and his ...
Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
Japanese animated webseries series (2016). Original title Planetarian Chiisana Hoshi no Yume. David Production. Based on the Visual Novel/Videogame developed by Key and the Light Novel written by Yūichi Suzumoto. Directed by Naokatsu Tsuda. Written by Naokatsu Tsuda and Shogo Yasukawa. Voice cast includes Daisuke Ono and Keiko Suzuki. Five episodes of ...
Epi-Log Magazine
US letter-size Television Semiprozine. Published by Star*Tech Publications. Publisher and editor: William Anchor. Originally saddle-stapled on cheap newsprint, the format switched to perfect-bound on glossy paper in 1992 and remained thus to the end. 44 issues, 1990 to 1994. Publication schedule varied between monthly and bimonthly. / This magazine of episode guides, subtitled "The Magazine of Television Science Fiction, Fantasy ...
Busse, Morgan L
(? - ) US author whose fantasies, which she identifies as Christian (see Religion), begin with the Follower of the World sequence; the first volume Daughter of Light(2012) [her fantasy series are not listed below] typically features a young woman summoned to submit her Psi Powers to bring her folk to the eponymous Light. Busse is of greater sf interest for two series. In the ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...