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DeVos, Elisabeth
(1966- ) US software designer and author, whose first novel, The Seraphim Rising (1997), translates its already extreme Central Florida setting into a Near Future venue infected by a false Messiah, whose exposure as a video producer creates chaos in Orlando. DeVos has written short fiction since this debut; further novels are hoped for. [JC]
Bade, William L
(1928-2005) US academic, physicist (he did work for NASA) and author, who began publishing Hard SF with "Advent" in Astounding for January 1948, beginning the short Advent series of five tales ending with "The Eight Hundredth Hundred-Day" (Fall 1953 Fantastic Worlds). Besides this sequence he wrote three other stories, none remarkable. [JC]
McGuire, John J
(1917-1981) US author best known for his collaborations with H Beam Piper on the sf action novel Crisis in 2140 (February-March 1953 Astounding as "Null-ABC"; 1957) and on A Planet for Texans (March 1957 Fantastic Universe as "Lone Star Planet"; 1958), Planetary Romance in the form of a Western set on New ...
Monsterscene
Letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine printed on slick paper. Publisher: Gogos Entertainment. Editor: Stephen D Smith. Eleven issues 1992 to 1997; publication was nominally quarterly but in fact erratic. / Acclaimed illustrator Gogos, who had gained considerable renown during the 1960s for his covers for Famous Monsters of Filmland, here tried his hand at a similar ...
Dessar, Leo Charles
(1847-1924) US judge and author whose The Royal Enchantress: A Romance of the Last Queen of the Berbers (1900) hovers comfortably between fantasy and sf in its recounting of the paranormal secret history of the historical Cahina, a late eighth-century partly-Jewish Berber ruler who opposed the Muslim conquest of inner Arabia. Her visions of the past and future have a Time Viewer intensity and detail. Her attempts to create a kind of ...
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 ...