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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 ...
Ackerman, Forrest J
(1916-2008) US editor, literary agent and collector, a reader of the sf Magazines from their inception (with a letter published in Science Wonder Quarterly in 1929), an active member of sf Fandom from his early teens; as early as 1932 he served as associate editor of The Time Traveller, often cited as the first true Fanzine. Beginning with "A Trip to Mars" ...
Leyner, Mark
(1956- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot" in Mississippi Review 1988, and whose spoofish, very mildly Satirical extravaganzas aroused in the 1990s a sense that he had gained some metafictional insight into the raree-show of America (see Absurdist SF; Fabulation), perhaps like Donald ...
Zombie 15'
Board Game (2014). Iello. Designed by Guillaume Lémery and Nicolas Schlewitz. / Zombie 15' is one of a series of board games with a Zombie escape theme – players must escape from a Post-Holocaust scenario before they are eaten by a ravening horde. The game is timed, and players have exactly fifteen minutes to win. / Zombie 15' is played on a board composed ...
Cybernetics Guardian
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1989; original title Seijūki Saigādo). AIC. Directed by Koichi Ohata. Written by Riku Sanjo. Voice cast includes Takeshi Kusao, Hirotaka Suzuoki and Hiromi Tsuru. 43 minutes. Colour. / In 2019 Adler (Suzuoki) fondly regards the City of Cyber-Wood: "a forest of steel, a gigantic concrete life form with Technology its blood"; laments that it suffers from a "malignancy", ...
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 ...