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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Maggin, Elliot S
(1950- ) US author of Comics, including various Superman titles, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s, when he was involved in reshaping the out-of-control DC Comics universe. As an author, he began publishing work of interest with "Spy 166: The Underground Express" in Weird Heroes: Volume 2 (anth 1975) edited by Byron Preiss. He also wrote some ...
After Blue
French film (2021); original title After blue (Paradis sale). Ecce Films / Ha Ma Productions. Written and directed by Bertrand Mandico. Cast includes Agata Buzek, Elina Lowensohn, Paula Luna and Vimala Pons. 129 minutes. Colour. / "To be incoherent means to have faith in cinema, it means to have a romantic approach, unformatted, free, disturbed and dreamlike, cinegenic, an epic narration." So reads part of the Incoherence Manifesto co-written by ...
Bananas
Literary journal of fiction, Poetry and essays published from London in tabloid newspaper format. 26 issues dated January/February 1975 to April 1981; initially bimonthly, but the schedule soon slipped to quarterly and then became irregular. Edited by Emma Tennant to #11 (Summer 1978) – with various listed associate editors including J G Ballard – and thereafter by Abigail Mozley. / ...
Rogers, Alva
(1923-1982) US author and artist, nicknamed "Red" for the colour of his hair and politics. Long involved in sf Fandom, he drew the covers for a number of 1940s Fanzines as well as some for the (UK) American Fiction series. In the 1960s he published the fanzine Bixel (4 issues September 1962-October 1968) and the one-off Bixeltype (December 1963), the latter comprising an essay ("FTL and ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...