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Gudynas, Peter
(1954- ) British artist, long a resident of Birmingham, though he has also lived in London; his childhood fondness for sf books, films, and television programs inspired a lifelong interest in the genre. A BA in Graphic Design from Lanchester Polytechnic (now called Coventry University) led in 1976 to his first assignment to paint sf book covers, for Panther, and he went on to produce covers for many other British and American publishers, including ...
Linklater, Thomas H
(1849-? ) UK accountant, possible missionary and translator, whose version of Jules Verne's De la Terre à la Lune: Trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes (1865) and Autour de la Lune: Seconde partie de: De la Terre à la Lune (1870) as From the Earth to the Moon Direct and Around the Moon (1877) remains among the very few Victorian translations of Verne worth keeping in print. In notes to his ...
Silver, Eve
(? - ) Canadian author who began to publish work of genre interest with Driven (2007) as by Eve Kenin, a Young Adult adventure/romance set in a future Dystopia with the flavour of an Arctic Mad Max (1979). This opens her Northern Waste sequence, which continues with Hidden (2008) and Frozen ...
Stellvia of the Universe
Japanese animated tv series (2003; original title Uchu no Stellvia; vt Stellvia). Produced by Xebec; directed by Tatsuo Sato; written by Mitsuyasu Sakai, Katsuhiko Koide, Ichiro Okouchi, Tatsuo Satō, and Katsuhiko Chiba. Music by Seikou Nagaoka. Voice cast includes Ai Nonaka, Yuki Matsuoka, Megumi Toyoguchi and Takahiro Mizushima. 26 episodes of 25 minutes. Colour. / Set in 2356 CE, 189 years after a supernova shockwave ...
Biro, Val
Working name of Hungarian-born illustrator and author Balint Stephen Biro (1921-2014), in the UK from 1939 until his death. During his prolific career as a book illustrator, which began in the early 1940s – his woodcut illustrations for Paul Tabori's Private Gallery (coll 1944) are already extremely accomplished – he executed a number of covers for sf and fantasy books, though never in a style that demonstrated any deep affinity for the ...
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 ...