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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 ...
X-Men '97
US animated series (2024-current). Marvel Animation. Based on the X-Men created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for Marvel Comics; this series created by Beau DeMayo. Directed by Jake Castorena, Chase Conley and Emi Yonemura. Writers include Beau DeMayo, Charley Feldman and Anthony Sellitti. Voice cast includes Eric Bauza, George Buza, Chris Britton, Ray Chase, Todd ...
Ellis, T Mullett
(1850-1919) UK architect, politician, poet and author of various works, two being of sf interest. Reveries of World History: From Earth's Nebulous Origin to its Final Ruin; Or, the Romance of a Star (1893) is an elated quasi-fictional text evocative of the work of Camille Flammarion; in his Spectrum of Fantasy 2 (1994), George Locke argues for its relevance as an sf "prose poem". Zalma ...
Speller, Jane
(? -? ) US author, in collaboration with her husband Robert Speller, of Adam's First Wife (1929), which recounts the experiences over 7,000 years of Lilith, originally of Sumerian birth and therefore descended from survivors of Atlantis; her Immortality is Drug-induced, but does not require the blood of virgins, and she is perhaps too level-headed to stand as ...
Beresford, J D
(1873-1947) UK author. He was the son of a clergyman, and he was crippled in infancy by polio; both facts were influential in forming his worldview. Two of his children, Marc Brandel (1919-1994) and Elizabeth Beresford (1926-2010), became authors of supernatural fiction. Beresford began to publish work of genre interest with "Cut-Throat Farm" in The Westminster Gazette for 14 August 1909; a determined but defensive agnosticism normally guides the development of his futuristic and ...
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 ...