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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 ...
Bulmer, Kenneth
(1921-2005) UK author, who also signed himself H K Bulmer, as well as using a number of pseudonyms for his books, including Alan Burt Akers, Ken Blake (not sf), Ernest Corley (not sf), Arthur Frazier (not sf), Adam Hardy (for his successful Hornblower-like novels of the sea), Philip Kent, Bruno Krauss (not sf), Neil Langholm (not sf), Manning Norvil, Charles R Pike (not sf), Dray Prescot, Andrew Quiller, Richard Silver (not sf), Tully Zetford, the collaborative pseudonym Kenneth ...
Mendelsohn, Felix, Jr
(1906-1990) US author of two unremarkable comic sf novels, Club Tycoon Sends Man to Moon (1965) and Superbaby (1969). The former, in its spoofing of the space race (see Space Flight), sometimes scores an amusing point; the latter similarly spoofs Genetic Engineering in a tale involving the New York Metropolitans, a terrible Baseball team and the created ...
Editorial Practices: Checklists
Checklists of published works are a new feature, added in this third edition of the encyclopedia, released online in October 2011. These include bookshop affiliate links, automatically added to italicized book titles by the website software and coloured as links in the ordinary way. All such links go to the encyclopedia's generic shopping page, allowing search of various online bookstores. During the period of our sponsorship by Hachette/Orion/Gollancz such links would connect to the Gollancz ...
Scott, T H
(1878-? ) UK author of adventure novels for boys; of sf interest is The Treasure Trail: A Tale of Adventure on the Amazon (1931), in which boy companions penetrate far upstream in an advanced motorboat, where they find traces of a Lost World. [JC]
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...