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Sarrantonio, Al

(1952-2025) US editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ahead of the Joneses" in Asimov's for March 1979. Much of his work was horror, sometimes tinged with sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Worms (1985), a Gothic tale set in Massachusetts with hints of H P Lovecraft; and the Equipoisal Moonbane ...

Quantum Computers

A still largely theoretical but eagerly researched breed of Computers which use quantum superposition to deal simultaneously with all possible values which can be represented as "qubits" (quantum bits, as opposed to conventional computer bits representing 0 or 1) in a quantum register. Experimental devices with small numbers of qubits have been tested; if workable on a larger scale, the technology should be capable of processing speeds vastly greater than normal ...

Goodfellow, Peter

(1950-2022) UK artist and illustrator who studied art at Middlesbrough College of Art 1967-1968 and the Central School of Art in London 1967-1971. He began to publish work of genre interest in 1972 with the UK Sidgwick and Jackson edition of Arthur C Clarke's Tales from the White Hart (coll of linked stories 1957), showing the titular Club-Story pub being overwhelmed by a giant squid. From then until the late ...

Allyn, Henry

Pseudonym of US author Harry Ehrlich (?   -?   ) of whom nothing is known beyond his authorship of The Worshiping Tribe (1940), a Lost Race novel. [JC]

Ludwig, Edward W

(1920-1990) US editor and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Inheritance" for Imagination in October 1950, an sf adventure much like most of his twenty or so magazine stories, some of this material being assembled as The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (coll 1983). The Mask of Jon Culon (1970) more ambitiously awakens its protagonist from ...

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 ...



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