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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 ...
Carson, Rae
(1973- ) US author, who is married to Charles Coleman Finlay; she began publishing work of genre interest with "First Waltz" in Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine for 2006, almost entirely concentrating on fantasy for the first several years of her career. The Young Adult Fire and Thorns sequence beginning with The Girl of Fire and Thorns ...
Becker, Muriel R
(1924-2008) US academic, author and critic who also wrote as Muriel Becker and under her full name Muriel Rogow Becker; she began to publish work of genre interest with a review in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review for December 1979, continuing to criticize sf in this journal and its successor Fantasy Review until 1987. Her major contribution to genre scholarship is the Clifford D ...
Strange Suspense Stories
US Comic (1954-1965). 58 issues. Charlton Comics. Artists include Jon D'Agostino, Steve Ditko, Dick Giordano, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Bill Molno. Script writers include Joe Gill and Carl Memling. 36 pages (except #37, a double issue). Usually 4-5 long strips per issue, plus 1-2 short strips (occasionally non-fiction) and a short text story. #75-#77 are dominated ...
SF International
US Digest-size Semiprozine published by Andromeda Press, Newbury Park, California and edited by William H Wheeler. Intended as a bimonthly magazine presenting translations of stories from around the world (see SF in Translation). Countries represented included Italy, Germany, China, Serbia, Holland as well as Great Britain, Australia and the USA but, as has happened every time anyone has introduced ...
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 ...