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Fabian, Stephen E
(1930-2025) American artist, sometimes credited as Steve Fabian or simply Fabian. The self-trained Fabian first worked as an electronic engineer, but he began contributing art to Fanzines in the late 1960s and became a full-time professional artist in 1973. He did a number of covers and interior art for SF Magazines, mostly Amazing, Fantastic, and ...
Future Sound of London, The
Also known as FSOL. UK dance music group comprising Garry Cobain (1966- ) and Brian Dougans (1968- ). FSOL's collage of instrumental musical styles is often rhythmically (if complexly) robotic, appropriate to its primary use in dance clubs and at raves. Some of the group's apparent sf qualities reveal themselves, on closer analysis, to have more mundane explanations – for example their early album Tales of Ephidrina (1993) ...
Thompson, Trudy
(? - ) US author of the romantic Planetary Romance Prisoner of Passion (1995), set in the Far Future of a planet that may be Earth, now a world that has been divided into three portions by the Ancient Ones. There are some resemblance to E R Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros (1922). Hostage Hearts (2006) is a romantic ...
Dandadan
Japanese animated tv series (2024-current; vt Dan Da Dan). Science SARU. Based on the Manga by Yukinobu Tatsu. Directed by Fūga Yamashiro. Written by Hiroshi Seko. Voice cast includes Natsuki Hanae, Kaito Ishikawa, Nana Mizuki, Ayane Sakura, Mayumi Tanaka and Shion Wakayama. Twelve 24-minute episodes to date. Colour. / Hotheaded Momo Ayase (Wakayama) comes to the aid of meek fellow student Ken Takakura (Hanae) who is ...
Hand, Elizabeth
(1957- ) US critic and author, partner of Richard Grant from 1988 to 1996, from 1996 partner of John Clute; she began publishing work of genre interest with "Prince of Flowers" in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine for February 1988. Her continuing output of short stories has won acclaim and some awards – "Last Summer at Mars Hill" ...
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 ...