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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 ...
Intelligence
Intelligence is necessarily one of the issues discussed in the entries on Aliens, Anti-Intellectualism in SF, Cybernetics, Mutants and Superman. Machine intelligence is discussed under Computers and Robots; for amplification of human ...
Buell, Mary E
(? -? ) US poet and author, whose The Sixth Sense; Or, Electricity, a Story for the Masses (1891) explains the nature of the energies that govern the entire world through electricity; that form of electricity here described as Magnetism (see Power Sources; Scientific Errors) heals the sick. [JC]
Masson, David I
(1915-2007) Scottish rare books librarian and author, long resident in England, with an MA in English language and literature. From 1945 to 1955, he was Curator of Special Collections at the University of Liverpool – where from 1993 the Science Fiction Foundation Collection has been housed – and from 1955 to 1979 was Curator of the Brotherton Collection at Leeds University. After some critical essays, Masson began publishing sf with ...
Caro, Dennis R
(1944-2021) US estate tax specialist and author who began publishing sf with "Cantaloupes and Kangaroos" in Clarion III (anth 1973) edited by Robin Scott Wilson. His first sf novel, The Man in the Darksuit: A Futuristic Mystery (1980), depicts with concise and surrealistic hilarity a mean-streets urban future and a mystery concerning the owner of the eponymous Invisibility-conferring outfit. ...
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 ...