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Future Fantasy
Letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine printed on cheap newsprint. Publisher: Cousins Publications. Editor: Timothy G Beckley. Three bimonthly issues published in 1978. / Unusually for a media magazine of this period, Future Fantasy contained an ongoing Comic strip titled Captain Cosmos and written by editor Beckley, while some poor-quality sf stories appeared amid the routine film articles. Besides sf ...
Galbraith, John Kenneth
(1908-2006) Canadian-born US economist, famous and prolific, perhaps best known for The Affluent Society (1958), though the reasons for his renown are multifarious. Of sf interest is The McLandress Dimension (coll 1963; rev 1968 as by John Kenneth Galbraith) as by Mark Epernay, a series of mock-essays explaining advances in psychometry – the quantitative measurement of human actions and motives – accomplished by Herchel McLandress; B F ...
Coxson, Richard
(? - ) US author whose sf trilogy, the Core Empire sequence beginning with Orphan's Test (2022), a Space Opera set seemingly in the Long Night after a vast monarchical Galactic Empire has crumbled. A traditional note is introduced through the protagonist' discovery that he is heir to the abandoned throne. [JC]
Pinsker, Sarah
(1977- ) US singer-songwriter and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Not Dying in Central Texas" in Nine for June 2012. She initially published only in shorter forms, though prolifically, with more than 50 stories released by 2019. "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss" (1-8 July 2013 Strange Horizons) won a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. She may be best known ...
Larson, Glen A
(1937-2014) US singer/songwriter, beginning in 1956 with The Four Preps; and Television producer, perhaps best known as producer of Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979), the eponymous dreadnought having some characteristics of an extremely small World Ship in Mormon dress. However, Larson had been long involved with television previously, being responsible for Quincy, ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...