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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
McConnell, James V
(1925-1990) US biologist and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Life Sentence" in Galaxy Science Fiction for January 1953, and who in 1959 founded a science magazine-cum-Fanzine, The Worm Runner's Digest, in which alongside scientific papers (in particular on planarian worms, his speciality) he published spoofs and Satires. Many of these are assembled as ...
Myers, Robert E
(1932- ) US editor and bibliographer who began to publish work of genre interest with the valuable – in its day – Jack Williamson Bibliography Jack Williamson: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980). For Greenwood Press he edited the substantial critical anthology The Intersection of Science Fiction and Philosophy (anth ...
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
US academic critical journal sponsored by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, current, theoretically quarterly but irregular after the first four issues (1988), with a further 6 issues during 1989-1991. Then the schedule became more regular, and the journal had reached #21 (Vol 6, no 1) by 1994. Vol 1 #1-#4 published M E Sharpe, Inc, New York, subsequent issues by Orion Publishing, New York. The initial executive editor was Carl B ...
Blakemore, Felix J
(1872-1948) UK author of The Coming Hour (1927), a dreadful-warning Near Future Dystopia set in an England run by socialists, who are voted out of office in 1946. This was not prescient of Felix J Blakemore. [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 ...