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Triplanetary
Board and counter Wargame (1973). Game Designers' Workshop (GDW). Designed by Marc Miller. / Triplanetary is an early space combat Wargame, noted for the elegance and simplicity of its design. Small numbers of spacecraft are represented by counters on a mapboard divided into hexagons, with a plastic overlay on which movement vectors can be drawn and erased. The system models Newtonian ...
Młody Technik
["Young Technician"] Polish popular science and technology magazine (1932-current) for younger readers. Originally founded in 1932 under the current title; renamed 1935-1950 as Młody Zawodowiec ["Young Practitioner"]. For most of its history it appeared monthly. / Under editor-in-chief Zbigniew Przyrowski (who led the magazine from its 1950 relaunch until 1981), Młody Technik became an important venue for sf during the communist era. In ...
Mysterious Wu Fang, The
US Pulp magazine, seven issues September 1935 to March 1936, monthly, published by Popular Publications; edited by Edythe Seims working for Rogers Terrill. / Intended to capitalize on the popularity of Sax Rohmer's Dr Fu-Manchu (featured in films and a Radio series of the period; see Fu Manchu), The Mysterious Wu Fang showed the ...
Copeland, Leland S
(1886-1973) US amateur astronomer and poet, a longtime contributor to Sky and Telescope magazine who is sometimes noted for his minor contributions to the field of astronomy. He merits a modicum of attention as the first poet (see Poetry) to have his works appear in an SF Magazine, as editor Hugo Gernsback published nineteen of his poems in Amazing Stories and ...
Harvey, Frank
(1913-1993) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Test Jump" for The Saturday Evening Post, 30 June 1956, and whose collection of stories, Air Force! (coll 1959), concentrates on that branch of the armed services, but with a Near-Future setting which includes manned satellites (see Space Stations) and the like. [JC]
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 ...