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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 ...
Edge of Darkness
1. UK television miniseries (1985). BBC TV, Lionheart Television International. Produced by Michael Wearing, directed by Martin Campbell. Written by Troy Kennedy Martin. Cast includes Joe Don Baker, Hugh Fraser, Charles Kay, Ian McNeice, Kenneth Nelson, Bob Peck, Zoë Wanamaker, Jack Watson, Joanne Whalley, John Woodvine. Music by Eric Clapton and Michael Kamen. Six 50-minute episodes. Colour. / This miniseries is among the best ...
Cramer, Kathryn
(1962- ) US critic and editor; daughter of John Cramer, married to David G Hartwell from 1997 until his death in 2016, who began publishing fiction of genre interest with "Forbidden Knowledge" in Mathenauts (anth 1987) edited by Rudy Rucker; she has been involved in various capacities with the ...
Gezora, Ganime, Kamēba: Kessen! Nankai no Daikaijū
Japanese film (1970; vt Space Amoeba; vt Yog – Monster from Space). Toho. Directed by Ishirō Honda. Written by Ei Ogawa. Cast includes Akira Kubo, Kenji Sahara, Atsuko Takahashi and Yoshio Tsuchiya. 84 Minutes. Colour. / On its way to study Jupiter the unmanned Spaceship Helios 7 is hijacked by a blue cloud-like creature (see Aliens) which ...
D'Ivoi, Paul
House name (literally) of French author Paul Deleutre (1856-1915) and of other members of his family; Paul Deleutre wrote under this name a 21-volume series of Fantastic Voyages, under the series titles Les Voyages Excentriques ["Eccentric Voyages"], in a clear attempt to compete with Jules Verne's Les Voyages Extraordinaires ["Extraordinary Voyages"], the rubric under which Jules ...
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 ...