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Speller, Maureen Kincaid
Working name of UK editor and critic Maureen Speller (1959-2022) who also wrote as Speller, and as Maureen Porter and Maureen Speller Kincaid; partner of Paul Kincaid from 1986 until her death (they married in 1993). Initially as Maureen Porter, she was active since about 1980 in UK Fandom and as a reviewer and essayist, her work appearing widely in various journals including ...
Spiral Zone
US animated tv series (1987). Atlantic/Kushner-Locke. Animated by Visual 80 and AKOM. Created by Diana Dru Botsford. Directed by Pierre DeCelles and Georges Grammat. Writers included Mark Edens, Michael Reaves, Steve Perry, Francis Moss, Patrick J. Furlong, Gerard and Carla Conway, Michael Edens and J Michael Straczynski (as Fettes Gray). ...
Chipman, C P
(1878-1956) US author of stories for the Boys' Papers; his two sf tales of interest are An Aerial Runaway: The Balloon Adventures of Rod & Tod in North & South America (1901) with W P Chipman, who was his father [see his entry for details]; and The Last Cruise of the Electra: Being the Strange Adventures of Two American Lads on Land and Sea (1902) solo. [JC]
Munro, C K
Pseudonym of UK civil servant (eventually Principal Assistant Secretary at the British Ministry of Labour) and playwright Charles Walden Kirkpatrick MacMullan (1889-1973), whose The Mountain; Or, the Story of Captain Yevan: A Symbolic Drama (1926) combines Utopia and Ruritania in its use of a fictitious City-state in the eastern heart of Europe as an arena for charged, symbolic discourse. ...
Amazing Science Stories
UK Pulp magazine published in Manchester by Pembertons in 1951. Two unmemorable issues appeared, largely reprints from #2 and #3 of the Australian Thrills Incorporated, but also two stories reprinted from Super Science Stories, a UK edition of which had been published by Pembertons. [BS/PN] links / ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...