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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 ...
Wood, N Lee
(1955- ) US author, married to Norman Spinrad (1990-2005); she began to publish work of genre interest with "Molly Haskowin" in Sworn Allies (anth 1995) edited by David Drake and Bill Fawcett. Her first novel, Looking for the Mahdi (1996), is a Near Future thriller which en passant interrogates ...
Fletcher, Charlie
(1960- ) UK screenwriter for film and television (none sf) and author, who also writes as C A Fletcher, and who created two fantasy series under the overall Stoneheart Milieu rubric. The Stoneheart sequence, beginning with Stoneheart (2006; vt Stone Heart 2007), is set in a London whose mundane surface is Crosshatched by a second reality ascertainable only by the cast of young protagonists, who become ...
Stahler, David, Jr
(? - ) US author for the Young Adult market whose Truesight sequence beginning with Truesight (2004) is set – unusually for a Dystopia in this category – on a colony planet, whose blind (or forcibly blinded) inhabitants, locked in a Keep known as Harmony Station, may be the subjects of a ruthless experiment in cultural engineering. The ...
Ergo Proxy
Japanese animated tv series (2006). Manglobe. Executive producers: Satoshi Fujii, Hiroyuki Kitaura, Takashi Kōchiyama and Akio Matsuda. Director: Shūkō Murase. Chief writer: Dai Satō. Voice cast includes Hôchû Ôtsuka, Rie Saitō, Akiko Yajima, Kōji Yusa. 23 25-minute episodes. Colour. / In the year 7207, Earth – blighted by a Disaster caused by late twenty-first century ...
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 ...