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Time Opera
A potentially useful item of Terminology which has yet to be generally adopted. It seems to have been coined by Anthony Boucher in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, first as a description of Jack Williamson's The Legion of Time (May-July 1938 Astounding; rev 1952) in "Recommended Reading" (April 1953 ...
Eerie
US Comic (1947, 1951-1954). Avon Periodicals, Inc (see Avon Comics). Eighteen issues. Artists include Sid Check, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Norman Nodel and Wally Wood. Script writers include Henry Kuttner (one identified story only) and Joe Kubert. Eerie Comics 52 pages, Eerie 36 pages per issue, usually with four long strips (Eerie Comics had five, plus a short strip) and a ...
Dare, Bill
Working name of UK author, comedian and Radio/television producer William Dare Jones (1960-2025), who is of sf interest for the Satirical BBC Radio 4 series Brian Gulliver's Travels (2 seasons, 2011 and 2012) which he created and co-wrote, and whose titular Gulliver character describes his experiences in various countries of the undiscovered continent Clafrenia. Targets include the medical ...
Sirota, Mike
(1946- ) US author, beginning with the Reglathium sequence of Planetary Romances, the first listed being The Prisoner of Reglathium (1978), but with all five volumes published simultaneously, and featuring various adventures across romantic continents: Monsters are encountered, and Underground vistas gape open, but the sequence lacks the narrative ...
Keen SF
US Semiprozine published and edited by Teresa Keene, Spokane, Washington; 12 issues, April 1996 to March 1997. A neat, Digest-size booklet, usually of between 40-50 pages, Keene paid 1½¢-a-word, striving to secure a decent pay-base. Her interests were in traditional "classic" forms of science fiction rather than modern trends and she encouraged her contributors to emulate their predecessors but with their own original ...
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 ...