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FAAn Awards
Short, partly acronymic name for the Fan (or Fanzine) Activity Achievement Awards first presented in 1975 for 1974 activity in Fandom, principally in Fanzines, and chosen by popular vote, initially with a small voting fee. The original categories were for best single issue of a fanzine, best fan writer, best fan editor, best fan artist – subdivided into serious and humorous categories – and best LoC ...
Clements, Jonathan
(1971- ) UK author and translator from Japanese of over seventy Anime and Manga. His translations include sf such as Sol Bianca (1990; trans 1996 UK), Grey: Digital Target (1986; trans 1995) (see Grey) and Toyamazakura Uchūchō Yatsu no Na wa Gold (1988; trans as Samurai Gold, 1995), and fantasy including ...
Pirate Writings
US Semiprozine, 26 issues, Winter 1992 to October 2005 (last two issues undated), published by Pirate Writings, New York until issue #16 (Spring 1998), thereafter by DNA Publications, Radford, Virginia; edited by Edward J McFadden III. Retitled Fantastic Stories of the Imagination from issue #19 Spring 2000. Intended as quarterly but only occasionally hit a regular schedule. The original title was never fully explained; like a pirate ship, the magazine ...
Thorne, Sally
(1981- ) Australian author for romance readers whose first novels are without fantastic content, but whose Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match (2022) mixes romance and sf, taking off directly from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). Angelika Frankenstein, Viktor's sister, attempts with mixed results to emulate his creation of the ...
Ronco, Dan
(? - ) US author in whose PeaceMaker sequence – comprising PeaceMaker (2004) and Unholy Domain (2008) – a self-aware Computer virus (see AI) threatens the world's Communication systems, leaving civilization vulnerable to the specious Uplift conspiracy, the Domain, which hopes unilaterally to ...
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 ...