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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 ...
Carnson, Maxwell
(1889-1973) UK minister and author, in active service during World War One; in USA in his later years. His Lost Race novel, Monkeys of Hai Tu (1927), is set in China, where a secret City is discovered, ruled by a "deity" and defended by an army of apes (see Apes as Human). Emily Farrar, searching for her lost fiancé in this mysterious region, ...
Burtis, Thomson
(1896-1971) US author, several of whose stories were filmed; his novels are usually Young Adult tales involving derring-do in the air, the best-known probably being the Rex Lee sequence beginning with Rex Lee, Gypsy Flyer (1929), none of these titles venturing into the fantastic. "The Sky Sheriff" (April 1923 Blue Book Magazine) inserts the modest innovation of the aeroplane into a ...
Daredevil
1. Film (2003). New Regency Pictures/Marvel Enterprises/20th Century Fox. Directed by Mark Stevenson Johnson. Written by Johnson, based on characters created by Stan Lee, Bill Everett, and Frank Miller. Cast includes Ben Affleck, Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Farrell, Jon Favreau, Jennifer Garner and Joe Pantoliano. 103 minutes; director's cut 133 minutes. Colour. / Blind attorney Matt Murdock (Affleck), with friend ...
Petty, John
(1919-1973) UK author, variously employed until he began publishing in 1957. The Last Refuge (1966) is a Post-Holocaust novel set in an oppressive, grey, Dystopian England that provides no refuge for the protagonist-writer. [JC]
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 ...