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Stephens, Christopher P
(1943- ) US book-dealer, publisher and bibliographer, founder in 1987 of Ultramarine Publishing Co, Inc, a Small Press whose fiction output has concentrated on releasing trade publisher's printed sheets in fine bindings. As a bibliographer from 1987 to 1992 he compiled Ultramarine checklists – some with revised/updated editions – on several authors, including James P ...
Steuart, John A
(1861-1932) Scottish-born editor and author, in Canada for some years, subsequently in England. The Club Stories assembled as The Jolly Pashas: The Story of an Unphilanthropic Society (coll of linked stories 1892) are essentially nonfantastic, or debunked [see Rationalized Fantasy in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. In the Day of Battle (1894) is a ...
Everman, Welch D
(1946-2004) US author and critic who began to publish work of genre interest with contributions to the "TZ Video" column in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine from December 1985 to June 1987. His books relevant to this encyclopedia are the Jerzy Kosinski study Jerzy Kosinski: The Literature of Violation (1991) and the Cinema-related ...
Eaton Award
This Award has been presented since 2008 by the University of California at Riverside for life achievement in science fiction, and is named in memory of J Lloyd Eaton (see J Lloyd Eaton Collection). Winners may be announced well in advance of the presentation, as with the July 2010 announcement of Harlan Ellison's 2011 award. A previous incarnation of the award was given for notable ...
Quasimodo's Monster Magazine
Letter-size perfect-bound Cinema magazine printed on cheap newsprint. Published by Mayfair Publications Incorporated. Editor: Tony Tallarico. Seven issues, January 1975 to May 1976. / An unabashed attempt to imitate Famous Monsters of Filmland, this publication started life as Monster World, then changed its title with #3 – possibly as a result of complaints from ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...