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Conway, Gerard F
(1952-2026) US author informally known as Gerry Conway who began his career in Comics, writing some non-fantastic scripts for Marvel Comics, and editing the short-lived 1973 weird fiction magazine The Haunt of Horror and writing for the 1973-1975 anthology Comic Worlds Unknown. He also worked extensively for ...
Miller, Jimmy
Working name of US author born Jane Curley (? - ), married to Warren Miller from 1958 until his death. The Big Win (1969) is a noisy but sometimes effective Post-Holocaust quest story which moves eventually into space, as the protagonists search for the Chinese war criminal who caused the manufactured Pandemic that has decimated the rest of ...
Play by Mail
Term used to describe a game in which the players communicate by (physical) post. Typically all participants send their moves in at regular intervals to a central moderator, who processes the orders simultaneously and returns the results. The moderator is generally the only individual involved to know the current state of all the pieces belonging to every player. Sf examples include Starweb (1976) and ...
Girard, Dian
(1942-2017) US author and artist long active in Los Angeles Fandom, publishing the spoofish Board Game The Game of Fandom in June 1964 as by Dian Pelz – her then married name, also used for some artwork appearing in the late 1960s. She began to publish fiction of genre interest with "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry" in 2020 Vision (anth 1974) edited by Jerry Pournelle. Further ...
Lloyd, Saci
(1967- ) UK cartoonist, singer and author. She is of sf interest for The Carbon Diaries sequence beginning with The Carbon Diaries 2015 (2008); couched in a Young Adult frame, it is shaped as the diary of a teenager/young woman written in a Near Future London where, due to violent weather Disasters, ...
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 ...