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Beyond Fantasy & Science Fiction
UK Semiprozine published and edited by David A Riley, Parallel Universe Publications, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. It was printed in A4 format on glossy paper but its overall appearance would fall short of being called Slick, although production values did improve over the three issues, which were dated April/May 1995, June/July 1995 and September/October 1995. It resembled, in its contents and artwork, ...
Lois Lane
DC Comics character, long described as Superman's girlfriend, who in canonical Comics eventually became his wife and the mother of his son, though she has usually remained single in films and television programs. She has inevitably had many sf adventures, including some striking transformations, though none as bizarre as some experienced by her colleague, cub reporter ...
Fulves, Karl
Working name of US magician and author Carl Anthony Fulves (1938-2023), who published many books and essays about stage magic, card tricks and sleight of hand, including a series on "self-working" tricks for Dover Books [not listed below]; he edited several magic-related journals. His one work of sf, Aftermath: Stories from the Rigel War (coll of linked stories 1976), is both a "force book" designed to aid mind-reading tricks (in which the mentalist divines which words or pages ...
Mark, Jan
(1943-2006) UK author, most significantly for Young Adult audiences; her several tales for younger readers, some of them acutely conceived picture books, are also of interest. Though much of her older fiction is set in the here-and-now, her sf stories – which are more complex, dark-hued and longer than her non-fantastic work, – are almost certainly her best work, and are very nearly indistinguishable, except for the age of their protagonists, from ...
Leslie, Peter
(1922-2000) UK author, journalist and actor, most of whose books were borderline-sf Ties contributed to Television spin-off series, beginning with two titles tied to The Avengers (1961-1969): Deadline (1965) and Dead Duck (1966), both as by Patrick Macnee but probably entirely ghostwritten by Leslie. His tales for 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 ...