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Aldridge, Alan
(1943-2017) UK artist and author, active from about 1963, initially as an illustrator for The Sunday Times Magazine. He created a number of striking sf covers in his distinctive quasi-psychedelic airbrushed style for Penguin Books, first as a freelance and then as Penguin's art director from 1965 to 1968, when he moved on to his own graphic design company INK. Aldridge's most prolific year at Penguin was 1967, with memorable cover art for J G Ballard's ...
Redfinn, Michael
(? - ) US author of Being (1988), an sf novel in which UFOs are proved to exist, justifying general Paranoia, as there has been a conspiracy to conceal them. [JC]
Shimmin, Graeme
(1967- ) UK author whose first novel, A Kill in the Morning (2014), is a Hitler Wins tale set in an Alternate History 1955 Britain and Europe, the Jonbar Point being the death of Winston Churchill in 1941, after which World War Two ends in a draw. The story itself is a thriller ...
Sterling, Michelle Min
(? - ) Canadian academic and author, now in the US, whose first novel, Camp Zero (2023), is set in a Near Future America devastated by Climate Change; unbearable heat inland has led to the construction of Dystopian Keep-like oceanside gated communities or polders (see ...
Strange Horizons
US Online Magazine launched in September 2000, and published weekly ever since. Originally devised and edited by a team headed by Mary Anne Mohanraj (the first editor-in-chief) and Jed Hartman. Since then there has been a succession of editorial changes. Mohanraj stepped down at the end of 2003 to be replaced as editor-in-chief by Susan Marie Groppi with associate editors Karen Meisner and Brian Peters. Niall ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...