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Cloukey, Charles
(1912-1931) US author and student whose death at the age of 19 robbed the field of a precocious talent. Cloukey's first sale was made when he was only fifteen, "Sub-Satellite" (March 1928 Amazing). It raised the interesting question of what happens in lunar Gravity when bullets are fired on the Moon. Both writing and plotting were of someone ahead of their years. Cloukey's most accomplished stories were a ...
Farrow, G E
(1862-1919) UK author whose work as been thought of as being almost exclusively of Fantasy for children, often showing the direct influence of Lewis Carroll. None of his books are easily understood as sf, though two of his earlier tales involve journeys in space: in The Missing Prince (1896), a Pierrot character descends to Earth from the Moon; and the protagonists of ...
Harrison, Niall
(1980- ) UK medical writer, editor and author, active from around 2003, both in Fandom and as a reviewer and critic. He served as Features Editor of Vector (2006-2011), and more demandingly for Strange Horizons as Reviews Editor (2006-2010) and as Editor-in-Chief (2011-2017). A large selection from the critical and review work he published during this period has been assembled as ...
Takahashi Rumiko
(1957- ) Japanese comics creator, notable through being a female author largely for magazines with predominantly male readerships, whose best-selling status by the late 1980s helped to propel her to foreign attention. She remains one of the Manga industry's most prominent celebrities, regularly appearing in annual lists of Japan's highest tax-payers, and hence one of the most successful ...
Revolution Science Fiction
US Online Magazine which ran as a cumulative blog with news, reviews, commentary, articles and coverage of games, tv and films, plus occasional fiction. It was produced by Shane Ivey, with fiction editor Rick Klaw and ran from 21 September 2001 to 17 June 2013. / It usually ran a new story each week, starting with the first outing of "A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club" by Michael Moorcock, ahead ...
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 ...