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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Charnock, Graham
(1946- ) UK author active in Fandom since the late 1960s; an important part of the 1970s London Ratfandom scene. His Fanzines include Phile (7 issues 1966-?1968), Wrinkled Shrew (8 issues 1974-1979) with his wife Pat Charnock (who was the principal editor), and Vibrator (59 issues 1975-1977; 2003-2005; 2013-2020). He began to publish work of genre interest with "Crim" ...
Ranken, J L
(1878-1945) Australian author in whose Tzane (1926) danger to the Near Future attends the Invention of the eponymous chemical formula; but is averted. [JC]
Montellier, Chantal
(1947- ) French painter, cartoonist, graphic artist and author, active from the late 1960s. Although well known in France for strongly argued left-wing works, and for an abiding focus on Feminist issues, she has perhaps not received due recognition in translation. One central work at least has been published in English, Social Fiction (coll/omni 2003; trans Geoffrey Brock 2023), which contains ...
Franklin, Jay
Pseudonym of John Franklin Carter (1897-1967). a journalist who did intelligence work for the American government in World War Two, and the author of several nonfiction books on American political figures as well as two sf novels, Champagne Charlie (1950), a mild Near Future political Satire, and The Rat Race (8 March-5 April 1947 Collier's Weekly; rev 1950), about a ...
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 ...