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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 ...
Cole, Everett B
(1910-2001) US author, formerly a professional US Army soldier and veteran of the Omaha Beach landing in World War Two; he retired from service in 1960 and was a high school teacher until his second retirement in the mid-1970s. He began publishing sf with "Philosophical Corps" for Astounding in March 1951, as by E B Cole – the first of the Philosophical Corps series for Astounding, which ceased there in 1956 before concluding much ...
Hinchcliffe, Philip
(1944- ) UK television producer, most notably for Doctor Who series, who has also written some Ties for the sequence, including Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom (1977), Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora (1977) and Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus (1980). In his pomp as a producer, during the years Tom Baker (see Doctor Who) was transforming the role, the ...
Cox, Richard
(1931- ) UK author whose full name is Richard Hubert Francis Cox; he should not be confused with Richard Cox (whom see). Of his several works, The Ice Raid (1983), is a Near Future tale depicting polar conflict between America and the USSR; Operation Sea Lion (anth 1974) offers some Alternate History speculations on the threatened German ...
Cline, Leonard
(1893-1929) US author most remembered for his sf-tinged Horror novel, The Dark Chamber (1927). Initially a journalist, he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles about the Ku Klux Klan for the Baltimore Sun. His first book, Poems (coll 1914), was followed by two mainstream novels, the dark God Head (1925), which makes use of legends from the Kalevala, and the light-hearted Listen, Moon ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...