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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 ...
Hendricks, Elysa
(? - ) US author, some of her romantic fictions displaying fantasy or sf content, like the Moon sequence beginning with Crystal Moon (2000), whose protagonist, cycling between Parallel Worlds, Equipoisally deals with fantasy and sf challenges, as well as difficult Sex. The Star Chronicles sequence beginning with Star Crash ...
Linton, Dr C E
(1865-1930) US author of The Earthomotor and Other Stories (coll of linked stories 1920), a series of tales involving Transportation with the aid of various Inventions including the eponymous burrower, which carries the cast into a Hollow Earth where a Lost World is discovered whose inhabitants enjoy Immortality; and a ...
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. / ...
Royer, Amber
Referred to in the entry for Eric Flint. /
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 ...