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Fabian, Stephen E
(1930-2025) American artist, sometimes credited as Steve Fabian or simply Fabian. The self-trained Fabian first worked as an electronic engineer, but he began contributing art to Fanzines in the late 1960s and became a full-time professional artist in 1973. He did a number of covers and interior art for SF Magazines, mostly Amazing, Fantastic, and ...
Online Newszines
Most current sf print Newszines (which see) have an associated online news presence in blog or website form. Below is a selection, culled from the Ansible links page, of exclusively online sf news outlets. Some also carry reviews, interviews and other nonfiction content. [DRL] see also: Online SF Resources. / Concatenation ...
Means, Howard
(? - ) US author of an Alternate History tale, C.S.A.: Confederate States of America (1998), set in the Near Future of a world in which the Confederacy (most implausibly) won the American Civil War. The premise of this alternate timeline is a surprisingly literal application of apartheid between entirely separate but equal Black and white sectors of society, with CSA ...
Contact
Film (1997). Warner Bros presents a South Side Amusement Company production. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Written by James V Hart and Michael Goldenberg, based on Contact (1985) by Carl Sagan and a story by Sagan & Ann Druyan. Cast includes William Fichtner, Jodie Foster, John Hurt, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt and James Woods. 150 minutes. Colour. / A radio astronomer (Foster) detects a signal ...
Anderson, Michael
(1920-2018) UK-born film director, in Canada from 1981, whose career in Cinema began in 1936 as an office boy at the Elstree studios; his first great success, and perhaps his best known movie, was the World War Two adventure The Dam Busters (1955). Productions of genre interest include Vice Versa (1948), directed by Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) with Anderson as assistant director, which is based on the ...
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 ...