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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Farris, Clelia
(1967- ) sf author from Italy who has won multiple awards for her work. Farris's interests are wide ranging, resulting in stories and novels about everything from Genetic Engineering and soul-transference to the Colonization of Other Worlds and Time Travel. The recurring motif of murder investigations (see ...
Hadley Publishing Company
US specialist Small Press, 1947-1948, based in Providence, Rhode Island, owned by Thomas P Hadley. It grew out of (or was a renaming of) Buffalo Book Co, under which name it published The Time Stream (December 1931-March 1932 Wonder Stories; 1946) by John Taine and The Skylark of Space (August-October 1928 Amazing; ...
Pollack, Alan
(1964- ) US illustrator who studied art at the New York colleges the School of Visual Arts, the Parsons School of Design and the New School of Figurative Art. He began to publish work of genre interest in 1991 with a cover picture for TSR's Role Playing Game magazine Dungeon, and for some years was a staff artist for TSR. He has since produced illustrations for other gaming companies (including cards for the Wizards of the ...
Robertson, J R
(? - ) Author whose single sf novel for Robert Hale Limited is The Crab Eagle Trees (1978). [DRL]
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 ...