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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 ...
Strete, Nara
(? - ) US artist and author of Starship of Fools (2022), a comic sf novel (see Humour) set initially in a modestly topsy-turvy Ruritanian kingdom, but mostly on a Starship, captained by a comic princess and her zany crew (see Ship of Fools). There is some danger that they will succeed in their mission, which is to ...
Place, François
(1957- ) French illustrator and author, many of whose works [not translated and not listed below] present imaginary maps of various regions as executed by the magi geographers of the Island of Orbæ. After an early career illustrating various authors of children's and Young Adult books, he released Les Derniers Géants (1992 chap; trans William Rodarmor as The Last Giants ...
Tallerman, David
(? - ) UK author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Stockholm Syndrome" in Pseudopod for July 2007. Most of his work has been horror, sometimes with a light touch (see Horror in SF), or fantasy, as in the Low Fantasy Tales of Easie Damasco sequence beginning with Giant Thief (2012) [for Low Fantasy see The ...
McGhee, Molly
(? - ) US editor and author in whose first novel, John Abernathy You Are Kind (2023), unfolds in a Dystopian Near Future world not much distinct from suburb-dominated solitudinous contemporary America, in which debts are inheritable, all of which she describes with a sharp Satirical edge. The titular Abernathy has been employed by a secretive ...
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 ...