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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 ...
Lee, Eli
(? - ) UK editor and author, articles editor for Strange Horizons; active from before 2015. Her first novel, A Strange and Brilliant Light (2021) – set in an ambivalently described Alternate World, or (it may be) a Zone possibly under Secret-Master control – depicts the marshalling of ...
Hunt, Samantha
(1971- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Famous Men" in Trampoline (anth 2003) edited by Kelly Link. Of sf interest is The Invention of Everything Else (2008), whose chambermaid protagonist meets Nikola Tesla in New York, where he was living in seclusion in the Hotel New Yorker in January 1943, at the very end of his long life; he tells her his life story, ...
Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire
South Africa/Nigeria/US animated television series (2023). Triggerfish Animation Studios. Executive producer: Peter Ramsey. Voice cast includes Kehinde Bankole, May Elghety, Blair Koono, Gigi Lamayne, Mo Mjamba, Sheila Munyiva, Nasty C, Mandisa Nduna, Pious Nyenyewa, Laith Nakli, Toluwanimi Olaoye, Sechaba Ramphele, Rene Setlhako, Pearl Thusi and Stycie Waweru. Ten 12-13 minute episodes. Colour. / Involving creators from Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, this ...
Atomic Platters
The name – coined by Bill Geerhart at the Conelrad website [see links below] – for a short-lived sub-genre of 1940s and 1950s pop music concerned with an atomic World War Three and its aftermath (see Holocaust). Many, though not all, of the artists and songs that might be so classified fell into later obscurity, but this was in its day a fairly lively aural manifestation of the fascinations of ...
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 ...