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Moore, Chris
(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...
Montgomery, R A
(1936-2014) US editor and author who also wrote as by Robert Mountain, first known for his contributions to the Choose Your Own Adventure sequence of non-computer-based Hypertext tales for the Young Adult market [see Checklist]; as an editor at Vermont Crossroads Press he published the first volume by Edward Packard under the series title ...
H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror
US Semiprozine available as a Print Magazine for its first four issues (Spring 2004 to Spring/Summer 2007) but only as a downloadable Online Magazine for its final issue (Spring 2009). Published by Wildside Press from Rockville, Maryland, and edited by Marvin Kaye. Of the print issues, all were letter-size except the third ...
Bell, M Shayne
(1957- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Earthlonging" for The Leading Edge in Winter 1981, and who was a 1987 winner of the Writers of the Future Contest for "Jacob's Ladder" (Fall 1985 Leading Edge); he has since published nearly 50 stories. His first novel, Nicoji (1991), effectively parlays a ...
Perkins, Frederick B
(1828-1899) US librarian, editor and author, who often spelled his first name Frederic, and also wrote as by Pharaoh Budlong; father of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. President Greeley, President Hoffman, and the Resurrection of the Ring: A History of the Next Four Years ... Written in the Second Week of November, 1876 (dated 1876 but 1872 chap) as by Pharaoh Budlong is a spoof Future History describing ...
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 ...