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Kelly, Frank K
(1914-2010) US journalist and author of considerable nonfiction, including studies in American contemporary history with Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974). He began to publish sf with "The Light Bender" in Wonder Stories for June 1931, and rapidly became known for Space-Opera tales of some bleakness, with a tendency toward Disaster, though some of his adventures featuring travel through various ...
Manning, Laurence
(1899-1972) Canadian-born author, in the USA from 1920, a founder of the American Interplanetary Society and editor of its journal, Astronautics, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The City of the Living Dead" with Fletcher Pratt in Wonder Stories for May 1930. He is best remembered for his numerous contributions to Wonder Stories and ...
Everglade, Mark
(? - ) US journalist and author who has published reviews and commentary on Cyberpunk writers and issues; he began publishing fiction of genre interest with "Pay-to-Play" in Neo Cyberpunk: The Anthology (anth 2021) edited by Matthew A Goodwin, Anna Mosikat and Marlin Seigman. The Gliese 581g sequence beginning with Hemispheres (2020) is set on humanity's last inhabited planet, a ...
Raffi, Sam
(? - ) US author of a Sex novel, Lust Potion 69 (1969), involving an aphrodisiac (see Drugs). [JC]
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Influential Graphic Novel by writer-artist Frank Miller, starring an aged, cynical and disillusioned Batman, who begrudgingly returns from a ten-year retirement amidst a Near-Future Dystopia that has overrun his beloved Gotham City with gang violence. Published in four volumes in 1986 by DC Comics and ...
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 ...