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Moore, Chris
(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...
Ohlander, Ben
(1965- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with the short fantasy "Smoke and Mirrors" in Magic: The Gathering: Tapestries (anth 1995) edited by Kathy Ice and Tied to the Collectible Card Game. His novels are Enemy of My Enemy (1995) with David Drake, a tie (written chiefly by Ohlander) to the ...
Phelps, William Lyon
(1865-1943) US academic, man-of-letters and author, of some sf interest for A Dash to the Pole (1909 chap), a spoof narrative depicting a Near Future expedition to the North Pole. [JC]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
US tv series (1993-1999). Created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, based on Star Trek (1966-1969) created by Gene Roddenberry. Producers include Berman, Piller, Peter Lauritson, Steve Oster, Ira Steven Behr, René Echevarria, and Ronald D Moore. Directors include David Livingston, Les Landau, Winrich Kolbe, Allan Kroeker, LeVar Burton, ...
Cummings, M A
Working name of Mona A Cummings (1914-1999), US author of romances as Monette Cummings, and of short stories in various genres, her work of genre interest beginning with "The Brides of Ool" in Planet Stories in 1955. Her collection is Exile and Other Tales of Fantasy (coll 1968), which contains some Planetary Romances. [JC]
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 ...