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N3F
The National Fantasy Fan Federation, formed in the USA in 1941; this was the brain-child of Damon Knight, who called for it in a Fanzine article titled "Unite – or Fie!" (October 1940 Fanfare ed Art Widner). After a succession of short-lived and factional US fan associations in the 1930s, the N3F proved a stable and enduring national organization. However, despite its long existence, it has maintained a relatively low ...
Neverworlds
US/Canadian Online Magazine produced by Kevin L McPherson and Jonathon M Sullivan, which ran from April 1998 to February 2002 but of which all online record has now been lost or is inaccessible. Initially bimonthly, it saw at least seventeen issues and may have attained a monthly schedule by 2001, but the sheer workload involved at the time when there was considerable flux in the dot.com world may have contributed to its demise. It paid a graduated rate to ...
Superhero 2044
Role Playing Game (1977). Gamescience. Designed by Donald Saxman. / Superhero 2044 is the earliest example of a professionally produced Role Playing Game based on the mythology of the Superhero. (A first edition was self-published in 1977 as Superhero '44, inspired by an unreleased game created by John M Ford.) Its most ...
Oneamisu no Tsubasa
["The Wings of Honneamise"] Japanese animated film (1987). Gainax, Bandai Visual, Tōhō Tōwa. Directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga. Written by Hiroyuki Yamaga. Cast includes Leo Morimoto and Mitsuki Yayoi. 119 minutes. Colour. / Shirotsugh Lhadatt (Morimoto) is a hapless, directionless youth who becomes one of the test subjects in his kingdom's rickety, underfunded space programme. A dead-end propaganda exercise by a ...
Seeley, Dave
(? - ) US artist of considerable range, whose work covers classic fine-arts territory such as nudes as well as depictions of futuristic hardware and sf, Fantasy and Horror figures; he sometimes signs work as David Seeley. He began to publish interior art of fantasy interest in the 1995 World Fantasy Convention souvenir book, and has been active in the production ...
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 ...