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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 ...
Nichol, C A Scrymsour
(1830-1916) UK author, mother-in-law of Ella Scrymsour; her sf novel, The Mystery of the North Pole (1908), is a Lost Race tale in which a Utopia founded by ancient Israelites is discovered in the Arctic. [JC]
Abrahams, Mort
(1916-2009) US film and television producer who began his career as producer of Tom Corbett: Space Cadet (1950-1955). From 1951 to 1953 he produced seven segments of the anthology series Tales of Tomorrow (1951-1956), and later (1965-1966) nine episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968). Abrahams was associate producer of ...
Young, Laurence Ditto
(1882-1965) US engineer and author of The Climbing Doom (8 November 1908-?? Illustrated Sunday Magazine; 1909), a Lost Race novel set in the Andes. A Princess falls in love with a white explorer and they wed. [JC]
Toombs, Robert T
(? - ) Almost certainly a pseudonym; no identity has been suggested for this name, which is attached to a series of five short Edisonades featuring Electric Bob, beginning with Electric Bob and His White Alligator; Or, Hunting for Confederate Treasure in the Mississippi River (1893 chap), in the New York Five Cent Library series of novellas published by Street and Smith. Electric Bob is a spoof ...
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 ...