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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Faceless, The
US metal band formed in Encino, Los Angeles in 2004, active through many line-up changes. Their second album, Planetary Duality (2008), is a concept album about the takeover of Earth by Aliens from an alternate Dimension, somewhat bizarrely inspired by conspiracy theorist David Icke’s "non-fiction" book The Children of the Matrix (2001). The relentlessly hyperactive drumming, high speed guitar solos and ...
Ludington, James
(1827-1891) US entrepreneur, Utopian thinker and developer, and author; the city of Ludington, Michigan was developed by Ludington according to his arguments about the natural (i.e. rational) construction of an ideal place to live. His novel, Various revelations: With an account of the Garden of Eden, and the Settlement of the Eastern Continent, as Related by the Leaders of the Wandering Tribes [for full subtitle see Checklist] (1876) as Anonymous ...
Lindsay, Vachel
(1879-1931) US poet, the clanging visionary primitivism of whose best-known work – the poems assembled in The Congo and Other Poems (coll 1914) – may have been ingenuous, though the volume also contains "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" (21 September 1914 Independent), in which President Abraham Lincoln is awoken from the grave to mourn World War One and the future, which "breaks his ...
Ellis, Havelock
(1859-1939) UK author, known as a Feminist, a socialist, and as an unprecedentedly frank (and learned) student of the sexual nature of our species (see Sex), most famously through Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897-1910 6vols), which argues that our sexual natures are essentially innate, including homosexuality. He was a controversial figure for most of his life, though The Dance of Life (1923) was ...
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 ...