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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 ...
Australian Science Fiction Review: Second Series
Australian Fanzine (March 1986-Autumn 1991), edited by "The Science Fiction Collective" or "ASFR Cooperative", at first comprising Jenny Blackford (1957- ), Russell Blackford, John Foyster (1941-2003), Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex; Janeen Webb joined the group and Sussex ...
Arrow, William
A House Name used by Ballantine Books for the Return to the Planet of the Apes Ties, based not on the Planet of the Apes films but on the later animated Television series. William Rotsler wrote #1 Visions from Nowhere (1976) and #3 Man, the Hunted Animal (1976); ...
Rishi, Farah Naz
(? - ) US author whose first novel, I Hope You Get This Message (2019), reinvokes, with some twists, the traditional Young Adult scenario where a young protagonist (or in this case three friends) must somehow persuade a galactic council of homo sapiens's virtues; species extirpation will be the cost of failure. The message NASA receives from the Interplanetary Affairs Committee representing the ...
Heti, Sheila
(1976- ) Canadian actor, playwright and author, most of whose work has been nonfantastic, though some of the tales assembled in The Middle Stories (coll 2001) show some facility with the toolkits of Fantastika. She is of some sf interest for Pure Colour (2022), a cosmogonical fable (see Metaphysics) whose protagonist, born into the first draft of the ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...