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Hildebrandt, The Brothers
Working name for the team of American artists Gregory J Hildebrandt (1939-2024) and Timothy Mark Allen Hildebrandt (1939-2006), identical twin brothers, although they also worked separately using the working names Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt. They will forever be regarded primarily as the definitive illustrators of J R R Tolkien because of the famous Tolkien calendars that featured their paintings of his characters; oddly enough, except for one 1975 ...
Wylwynne, Kythe
Pseudonym of UK journalist and author M E F Hyland (? -? ) whose Lost Race tale, The Dream-Woman: A Tale (1901), employs fantasy-like dreams to convey the nature of life Under the Sea in a recently discovered ancient City. Hyland was female. [JC]
Winchester, Clarence
(1895-1981) UK editor, journalist, poet and author, several of whose edited volumes, mostly about the world of the air, have remained known, including in particular Wonders of World Aviation (1937-1938 Amalgamated Press in 40 parts; 1938 2vols) where, for almost the last time before World War Two ended that dream, it could be assumed that a worldwide Pax Aeronautica was just around the corner; his ...
Peel, John
(1954- ) UK television scriptwriter and author, resident for some time in the US, who has also written under the House Name Nicholas Adams, Rick North and John Vincent. He is mostly noted for his influential Doctor Who Ties, beginning with Doctor Who: The Chase (1989), often featuring ...
Penney, Lloyd
(1959- ) Canadian fan, editor and convention-runner, active in Fandom since the late 1970s; he co-edited the Fanzine Torus (8 issues 1986-1990) and has received multiple FAAn Awards for his many letters published in fanzines. Since November 2022 he has been the editor of the current incarnation of Amazing Stories, and in this ...
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 ...