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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 ...
Bull, Albert E
(1869-1939) UK author who according to a contemporary Who's Who in Literature lived in London, and who was active from the turn of the century for about three decades, usually as the author of nonfiction self-help manuals, crime novels and a series of children's stories. He also used the pseudonym Arthur Ward Basset for a nonfiction work in the Famous Crimes series. Radium, and the Detective (1905) is a detective novel of marginal sf interest, and ...
Britz-Cunningham, Scott
(? - ) US radiologist and author whose first novel, the Near Future Code White (2013), traces the attempt of a daring neurosurgeon to implant a Computer into the brain of a blind lad, who will be enabled to see; obstacles mount. Interface (2022) continues thematically from Code White in its examination of the political implications of a neural implant that ...
Pow, Tom
(1950- ) Scottish poet and author of two Young Adult tales: Scabbit Isle (2003), set in a surreal townscape and countryside haunted by a cemetery where plague victims had been buried centuries earlier; and The Pack (2004), a Young Adult tale set in a Dystopian Near Future UK where the wealthy hide themselves in an ...
Masciola, Carol
(? - ) US screenwriter, journalist and author in whose first novel, the Young Adult The Yearbook (2015), a young protagonist finds herself, after falling asleep over an old yearbook in her high school Library, shifted by a form of Time Travel or Timeslip into the same town eighty years earlier. Here, after plot ...
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 ...