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Fantasy [magazines]
Title used on two early UK sf magazines. / 1. UK Pulp magazine published by George Newnes Ltd, edited by T Stanhope Sprigg (1903-1977) as a companion to his highly successful Air Stories. It saw three undated issues released in Summer 1938 and Spring and Summer 1939. Its material, though now badly dated, was typical of the stereotypical pulp fiction of the day and included work by John Beynon Harris (see John ...
Dille, Flint
(1955- ) US author, a member of the Dille family that owns the Buck Rogers copyright (see Buck Rogers in the 25th Century), and author of a few Buck Rogers stories like "The Relic" and "Armageddon 1995", which appear in his anonymously edited anthology, Buck Rogers: Arrival (anth 1989). He is also responsible for the Agent 13, The Midnight Avenger sequence beginning with ...
Dudbroke
Or Montague Dudbroke, narrator of the one novel attributed to this name. Pseudonym of an unidentified UK author (? -? ) – E F Bleiler in Science Fiction: The Early Years (dated 1990 but 1991) suggests that the author may have been a biologist – whose The Prots: A Weird Romance (1903) uncannily prefigures Karel Čapek's The War with the Newts ...
War
This very broad theme permeates large areas of sf, and is principally dealt with in this encyclopedia under the heading Future War. The historical World War One and World War Two have their own more specific entries, as does the dominant latter-twentieth-century nightmare that never in fact achieved reality, the nuclear Holocaust of ...
Samovar
US professional Online Magazine, an offshoot sister publication to Strange Horizons, filling one of that magazine's weekly slots on a quarterly basis, starting 27 March 2017. / Samovar is edited by Sarah Dodd and Greg West, along with co-editor Sarah Brooks, with an Advisory Board that includes Dr Helen Marshall, Rachel Cordasco and ...
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 ...