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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 ...
Fadiman, Clifton
(1904-1999) US author and editor, notably with Simon and Schuster and The New Yorker, who became a well-known figure through radio and television broadcasting. He edited two important Anthologies devoted to Mathematics and its folklore, both including sf and material of sf interest: Fantasia Mathematica (anth 1958) and The Mathematical Magpie (anth 1962). See Checklist for the long subtitles. ...
Ottum, Bob
(1925-1986) US sports author and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "She Called Me Frankie" for Science Fiction Quarterly in May 1953. In his surprisingly funny sf novel, All Right, Everybody Off the Planet (1972), inefficient Aliens send a spy among us in human form; the humour derives from their ignorance of human relationships and from their attempts to stage-manage an impressive ...
Vivian, E Charles
Working name of UK editor and author of popular fiction (1882-1947), born Charles Henry Cannell but apparently changing his name legally to Evelyn Charles Henry Vivian on joining the army at the age of 18, ultimately serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War One; he wrote some non-genre novels as Charles Cannell, and some short fiction as by Sydney Barrie Lynd, Galbraith Nicolson and A K Walton. Some of that short fiction – including "The ...
Millers, Reinhold
(? - ) US author of a metaphysical sf tale, Time Exile (1972), whose protagonist is exiled to a tiny Island for thousands of years, until a "Time Patrol" (see Time Police) comes upon him. [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 ...