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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 ...
Peters, Alan
(? -? ) UK author of The Secret Formula (1932), a Near Future tale in which a cure for cancer is discovered (see Medicine). [JC]
Homeboys in Outer Space
US tv series (1996-1997). Sweet Lorraine Productions/Touchstone Television for the UPN Television network. Created by Ehrich Van Lowe. Produced by Stan Foster, Lee Kimbrough, Jeffrey Lambert, and Miguel Nunez, Jr. Directors included, Gerry Cohen Matthew Diamond Patrick Maloney, and Glyn Turman. Writers included Chuck Cummings, Kimbrough, Stu Kreisman, and Michael Shipley. Cast includes Darryl M Bell, Felix Bell and Rhona Bennett (voice only). 21 25-minute episodes. Colour. / A pair ...
Maras, Karl
A House Name of the London publishers Comyns/Paladin Press, used twice by Kenneth Bulmer and once by Peter Hawkins. [JC/DRL]
Andom, R
Pseudonym of UK author Alfred Walter Barrett (1869-? ), who remains best known for We Three and Troddles: A Tale of London Life (1894), to which he wrote numerous sequels, one of which, In Fear of a Throne (1911), is a Ruritanian fantasy; and for other light fiction in the mode of popular figures like Jerome K Jerome. His sf and fantasy were similarly derivative; titles of interest ...
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 ...