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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 ...
Zumas, Leni
(1972- ) US academic and author whose first book, Farewell Navigator: Stories (coll 2008), contains relatively few outright examples of Fantastika but (see Postmodernism and SF) often admixes an almost suburban mundanity with prescient flashes of the exorbitance of the world. Her first novel The Listeners (2012) slightly less successfully conflates elements of ...
Teflon, Zeke
Pseudonym of US author, translator, editor and publisher Chaz Bufe (? - ), publisher and chief editor at See Sharp Press since 1984; he also publishes nonfiction as Chaz Bufe. In his Near Future Satire Free Radicals: A Novel of Utopia and Dystopia (2012), the protagonist, framed on Earth for anti-social behaviour leading to terrorism, finds himself on a ...
Frost, Conrad
(1911-2005) UK author and features editor. Sf was only a minor part of his output, which was generally confined to the 1950s. He scripted Basil Blackaller's Ace O'Hara space-adventures in the Daily Dispatch, and wrote eight Rick Random pocket Comic books for the Super Detective Library, though he was here overshadowed by Harry Harrison's five contributions. In 1956 ...
Dr Satan
Mexican film (1966). Producciones Espada S. de R.L.. Directed by Miguel Morayta. Written by Sidney T Bruckner, José María and Fernández Unsáin. Cast includes Judith Ruiz Azcarraga, Quintín Bulnes, Joaquín Cordero, Alma Delia Fuentes and José Gálvez. 92 minutes. Black and white. / Scientist Dr Plutarco Aruzamena (Cordero) kidnaps and kills a beggar by injecting them with ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...