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Davenport, Basil
(1905-1966) US academic and anthologist. His connection with sf began with An Introduction to Islandia [for subtitle see Checklist] (1942 chap), a book about Islandia (1942) by Austin Tappan Wright; his introduction to Stephen Vincent Benét for that author's Selected Works (coll 1942 2vols) is strong and sympathetic. Then came a short critical and historical ...
Omni
US heavily illustrated popular-science Slick magazine which included fiction; letter-size format, published by Omni Publications International, New York, October 1978 to Winter 1995, 200 issues, monthly (though February/March 1993 issue combined) to April 1995 and quarterly for two final issues, Fall and Winter 2005. Editors: Frank Kendig, October 1978 to December 1979, Ben Bova, January 1980 to September 1981, Dick Teresi, October 1981 ...
Traver, N K
(circa 1986- ) US author of Duplicity (2015), a Young Adult tale set in a Near Future America very similar to the contemporary world, but where seemingly covert access to Cyberspace – or perhaps a Virtual Reality constructed to resemble cyberspace – distressingly exposes the moderately dysfunctional young ...
Gansovsky, Sever
(1918-1990) Russian author, a dominant figure of the 1960s and 1970s; he was well known for his Radio plays, some of them sf, and also well regarded for his Hard-SF short stories and novellas, which were assembled in Shagi V Neizvestnoie ["Steps into the Unknown"] (coll 1963), Shest' Geniev ["Six Geniuses"] (coll 1965), Tri Shaga K Opasnosti ["Three Steps Towards Danger"] (coll 1969), ...
McCay, Bill
Working name of US author William McCay (? - ), who has exclusively restricted himself to Ties. They include two titles in the fourth Tom Swift sequence (see Tom Swift): The Black Dragon (1991) and The Negative Zone (1992), both as by Victor Appleton; three Nintendo Adventure Books: Monster Mix-Up (1991), ...
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 ...