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Moore, Chris

(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...

Field, Marlo

(?   -?   ) US author of whom nothing is known beyond his (her?) Hollow Earth tale, Astro Bubbles (1928), based on Cyrus Reed Teed's hypothesis that we live within a hollow cylinder, rather as though we inhabited a Generation Starship or World Ship. Field's world is, in fact, far more complex than that, though his/her compulsive didacticism ( ...

Hampson, Frank

(1918-1985) UK artist who almost singlehandedly brought the UK Comic strip into the scientific age. When the Reverend Marcus Morris and Frank Hampson originated the Eagle comic in 1949-1950, Hampson created the sf strip Dan Dare – Pilot of the Future for its full-colour front pages. While ostensibly designed to foster Christian values, what made the strip so revolutionary was Hampson's genius for colour, ...

Mekton

Role Playing Game (1984). R Talsorian Games (RTG). Designed by Michael Pondsmith. / Mekton is a game designed to simulate a very specific form of fiction, that of Anime series focusing on giant Robots, or Mecha. Prominent examples of the genre include Bubblegum Crisis (1987-1991), ...

Wye, Alan

(?   -?   ) UK author of The Remnants of 1927 (1925) with Paul Long, a Future War tale involving the Invasion of the UK by Russia. [JC]

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 ...



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