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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Monster Parade
Cinema Magazine, letter-size and saddle-stapled, published on newsprint-quality paper by Magnum Publications. Four issues, September 1958 to March 1959. Editor: M J Shapiro. / While Monster Parade was nominally a Cinema magazine, a high percentage of its contents was made up by very short Horror stories mixed with coverage of the films and ...
Arlen, Michael
(1895-1956) UK-Bulgarian-Armenian author, born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, in the UK from 1901, not allowed to enlist in World War One because of his confused national status; naturalized in 1922 under the name Michael Arlen (which he then took by deed poll). Initially as Dikran Kouyoumdjian, he was active from 1916, writing as Arlen from about 1920. He is mainly remembered for The Green Hat: A Romance for a Few People ...
Buckley, Kathleen
(1943- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with The Alien Trace (1984) with Sharon Jarvis, the two authors writing together as H M Major; this and its successor Time Twister (1984), also with Jarvis and as by Major, form the mildly erotic Alien Trace sf sequence. Buckley has also published some short Horror fiction under her own name, beginning with ...
Smith, Russell J
(1972- ) UK author of The Phenomenon (2007), a Near Future sf tale, set in a world already beset by Climate Change, which is afflicted by a "disease" whose victims broadcast their thoughts (see Telepathy) involuntarily. [JC]
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 ...