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Yandro
US Fanzine. 259 issues 1953-1986; edited from Indiana by Robert and Juanita Coulson, the last two issues by Robert Coulson alone; last issue not distributed until 1991. Originally published as Eisfa, Yandro was one of the longest-running large fanzines. Its contents, in the normal tradition, were not restricted to sf but included regular columns, articles, reviews and letters. Yandro won the 1965 ...
Slattery, Brian Francis
(1975- ) US author, editor, and musician, whose early short fiction, beginning with "The Things that Get You" in Glimmer for Spring 2002, often partakes (if faintly) of the fantastic, which he began to explore more deeply with Spaceman Blues: A Love Song (2007), an exuberant fantasy – some of whose elements, such as Aliens and Underground environments, belong rather to sf – ...
Shah, Bina
(1972- ) Pakistani journalist and author, active from before 2000, mostly in US since early adulthood; the stores assembled in her first collection, Animal Medicine (coll 2000), are nonfantastic, as are her earlier novels. She is of sf interest for the Before She Sleeps sequence beginning with Before She Sleeps (2018), set in a Near Future Dystopian South West Asia, where a ...
Strause, Greg
(1975- ) US filmmaker generally co-credited with his brother Colin (1976- ), often under their preferred joint title as "The Brothers Strause". Primarily a special-effects team, they co-directed Alien Vs Predator: Requiem (2007) and Skyline (2010); they have also provided effects, since 2002 through their company Hydraulx or hy*drau"lx, for many films including Titanic (1997), ...
Jimmy Olsen
DC Comics character (full name James Bartholomew Olsen), long-time close friend of Superman. He merits attention here because, among other reasons, he has occasionally been a Superhero. / Although an unnamed character in a 1938 Comic has been advanced as Olsen's first appearance, he was officially introduced by name in 1940 in the Radio ...
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 ...