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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 ...
Atherton, Gertrude
(1857-1948) US author, biographer and historian. In a long career that extended from 1882 to 1946 she published about 50 books in a multitude of genres, beginning to publish work of genre interest with "The Caves of Death" for San Francisco News Letter in 1886; her first novel was an occult romance involving metempsychosis, What Dreams May Come: A Romance (1888) as by Frank Lin (see Reincarnation). In ...
Kaiju No. 8
Japanese animated tv series (2024; original title Kaijū 8-gō). Production I.G.. Based on the Manga by Naoya Matsumoto. Directed by Shigeyuki Miya and Tomomi Kamiya. Written by Ichirō Ōkouchi. Voice cast includes Fairouz Ai, Masaya Fukunishi, Tesshō Genda, Wataru Katoh, Asami Seto and Hiroyuki Yoshino. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / As children, friends Kafka Hibino (Fukunishi) and Mina Ashiro ...
Bowman, David
(1957-2012) US author whose first novel, Let the Dog Drive (1992), features gonzo Equipoisal riffs on modern American life, with elements of fantasy, Satire and Californian Magic Realism. While evoking some of the same mix of elements, his second novel, Bunny Modern (1998), is a genuine sf Satire set in New York, in a ...
Graydon, Robert Murray
(1890-1937) US-born author, long in the UK, of fiction for boys, including several Sexton Blake titles. He also wrote as by Murray Hamilton, Robert Murray and Murray Roberts, most of his work under the last of these names appearing in the Captain Justice sequence. He was the son of the much more prolific William Murray Graydon (1864-1946). [JC/RR]
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 ...