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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 ...
O'Keefe, Megan E
(1985- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Another Range of Mountains" in L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future: Volume 30 (anth 2014) edited by Dave Wolverton, and who initially focused on fantasy, in particular the Scorched Continent sequence beginning with Steal the Sky (2016), set in a Steampunk-inflected world with ...
Pascal, Jacques
Pseudonym of unidentified US author (? - ) of two Near Future erotic novels (see Sex), Virgin's Sacrifice (1980) and Futuresex (1981). [JC]
Parsons, Lucy
(1851-1942) US political agitator, labour organizer, editor and author, born a slave. She was for many years most recognized as the wife of the white anarchist Albert Parsons (1848-1886), who was executed on a trumped-up charge of murder during the 1886 Haymarket bombing in Chicago; but her own considerable stature has gradually gained attention. Most of Parsons's work is nonfiction, but one tale, "Communistic Monopoly" (March 1886 The Alarm), conveys its protagonist into the ...
Carrère, Emmanuel
(1957- ) French author, mostly of autofictional nonfiction after 2000 or so, some of whose early novels are of interest within a broad-church understanding of the tools of Fantastika. He began to publish work of genre interest with "Victor Frankenstein: Carnets inédits" ["Victor Frankenstein: Unpublished Letters"] in Fiction for April 1979; his first novel of sf interest, Bravoure (1984; trans Lanie Goodman with ...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 ...