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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 ...
Marsport
Videogame (1985). Gargoyle Games (GG). Designed by Roy Carter, Greg Follis. Platforms: Amstrad, Spectrum. / Marsport is an "arcade adventure" (see Exile), a precursor to the action Adventure form that flourished largely in the UK during the 1980s. While it was well regarded at the time of its original release – as was its better known predecessor, the Celtic fantasy game ...
Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction
US letter-size Semiprozine, published by Pulphouse Publishing, Eugene, Oregon for the first issue, dated January 1993 (launched in September 1992) but thereafter acquired by the editor, Algis Budrys, who published it under the Unifont Company, Evanston, Illinois for the rest of its run which was, as a print magazine, until February 1997, a total of 24 issues. It then went online from April 1997 until August 1999, a further ...
Molyneux, William
(1656-1698) Irish politician, scientist, soldier, philosopher, author of several speculative works; as a text that evokes Proto SF topoi, Dioptrica Nova: A Treatise of Dioptrics: in Two Parts [for full title see Checklist] (1692) is of sf interest for its inclusion of a kind of Fantastic Voyage to the Moon and other planets, though it is made solely at remote control, via telescope. ...
Levett, Arthur
(? -? ) UK author of A Martian Examines Christianity (1934), a disquisition in the form of a novel: a visitor from Mars lands on Earth in his Spaceship and discusses Religion until the book ends. [JC]
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...