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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 ...
Shi Nian Taiwan
["Ten Years Taiwan"] Taiwanese film (2018). Golden Scene, Joint Studio, Ten Years Pictures. Directed by Lekal Sumi Cilangasan, Rina B. Tsou, Lu Po-shun, Hsieh Pei-ju, Lau Kek-huat. Cast includes Liao Bo-yan, Lu Dong-yang, Karolyn Kieke, Jane Liao, Li Li-rong, Alina Tsai, Wang Tsung-wei, Li Wen-he, Cheng Yu-chieh and Cheng Zheng-jun. Screenplay by the directors. 108 minutes. Colour. / An anthology piece of five Near-Future ...
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
US animated film (2023). Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Marvel Entertainment. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson. Written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Dave Callaham. The Mike Morales version of Spider-Man (see Superheroes) was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli, based on the Marvel Comics characters by Stan Lee and Steve ...
Killiany, Kevin
(? - ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with a tale Tied to the Star Trek universe, "Personal Log" in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds IV (anth 2001) ed Dean Wesley Smith, John J Ordover and Paula M Block; his two Ties to the MechWarrior subdivision of the Battletech ...
Coxson, Richard
(? - ) US author whose sf trilogy, the Core Empire sequence beginning with Orphan's Test (2022), a Space Opera set seemingly in the Long Night after a vast monarchical Galactic Empire has crumbled. A traditional note is introduced through the protagonist' discovery that he is heir to the abandoned throne. [JC]
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...