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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 ...
Ross, Malcolm
(1895-1965) US author and reporter, the protagonist of whose Time in Reverse sf novel, The Man Who Lived Backward (1950), lives from 1940 to 1865, dying just after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, which he is therefore unable to prevent. [JC]
Simpson, George Gaylord
(1902-1984) US palaeontologist and author, significant for his work on the theory of Evolution; his opposition to the theory of continental drift delayed acceptance of the obvious among scientists, though he himself eventually accepted the evidence. He is of sf interest for The Dechronization of Sam Magruder (date of composition unknown; 1996), in which through a laboratory accident the eponymous Scientist is thrown back ...
Takano Kazuaki
(1964- ) Japanese author, almost exclusively of nonfantastic crime thrillers, an exception of sf interest being Jenosaido (2011; trans Philip Gabriel as Genocide of One 2014; vt Extinction 2015), an Alternate History which sets a Mutant Superman against a fearful and corrupt American government whose President, Gregory S Burns, is ...
Campbell, Spencer
(? -? ) UK author of Under the Red Ensign: A Story of England's Peril (1912), a Future War tale that pits Germany against Great Britain in 1916, mostly at sea. [JC]
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 ...