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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Keith, Brandon
(? - ) US author, perhaps pseudonymous, of three 1960s Ties: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the Affair of the Gentle Saboteur (1966) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the Affair of the Gunrunners' Gold (1967), both tied to the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968), and The Green Hornet: The Case of the Disappearing Doctor ...
Kenin, Millea
(1942-1992) US editor, publisher, anthologist, poet and author active in Fandom, who began to release stories of genre interest with "The Knight of the Road" in Potboiler for February 1982. Under her birth name Millea Levin she was founder-editor of the Poetry journal Sciamachy (1960-1964), contributors with entries in this encyclopedia including John Clute and Thomas M ...
Lindsay, Richard
(? - ) Author whose single sf novel for Robert Hale Limited is The Moon Is the Key (1980). [DRL]
Hall, Norman
(1904-? ) Author whose single sf novel for Robert Hale Limited was Green Hailstones (1978). [DRL]
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 ...