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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Segriff, Larry
(1960- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Cat's Eye" in Cemetery Dance for Fall 1993. His first series, the Tom Jenkins sequence comprising Spacer Dreams (1995) and Alien Dreams (1998), is Military SF, lightly and competently told, with a Young Adult protagonist who finds adventure in the stars; his contributions to the ...
Morris, Jan
(1926-2020) UK travel writer and historian, from just after World War Two until the mid-1970s as James Morris; A Venetian Bestiary (1982) is fantasticated within its conventional frame, but she is of genuine sf interest for Last Letters from Hav (1985; exp vt as coll, Hav 2006). In the 1985 iteration, a travel writer named Morris sojourns in the vastly intricate Middle Eastern peninsula and City called Hav, a ...
Blue Beetle
US Comic (1940-1950). Fox Publications, Inc. 40 issues (numbered #1-#11, #31-#42, #44-#60; see below regarding #12-#30). Artists include Alvin Hollingsworth, Jack Kamen, EC Stoner and Al Zere. Scriptwriters include Will Eisner, Alvin Hollingsworth, E C Stoner and Al Zere. Initially 68 pages with 9 long strips, it had reduced to 36 pages and 3 long strips by the end of its run; there would also be a short text story, plus short ...
Raman, A Thothathri
(? - ) Indian journalist and author whose sf novel, Hope!: A 26th Century Tale of Commerce and Love (2002), set in a Galactic Empire apparently dominated by Earth, where a rigid Dystopia has banned both commerce and love from the armamentarium of human responses to reality; the protagonists, who hail from a distant colony planet, rebel successfully. [JC]
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...