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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Młody Technik
["Young Technician"] Polish popular science and technology magazine (1932-current) for younger readers. Originally founded in 1932 under the current title; renamed 1935-1950 as Młody Zawodowiec ["Young Practitioner"]. For most of its history it appeared monthly. / Under editor-in-chief Zbigniew Przyrowski (who led the magazine from its 1950 relaunch until 1981), Młody Technik became an important venue for sf during the communist era. In ...
Chronister, Kay
(? - ) US author, best known for horror fiction in short story form, beginning with "The Warriors, the Mothers, the Drowned" in Beneath Ceaseless Seas for 28 May 2015, much of this work being assembled as Thin Places (coll 2020). Her first novel, the Young Adult Desert Creatures (2022), conveys its young protagonist and her father on a Fantastic Voyage ...
Egan, Kevin
(1952- ) US author who has also written as by K J Egan and as Conor Daly, most of his work being nonfantastic. His first novel, however, The Perseus Breed (1988), is an sf tale. The disappearance of women in New York every thirty years is investigated by a professor of Psychology, who discovers that for complex reasons planet Earth has become a nursery for a ...
Silicon Dreams
Videogame series (from 1983). Level 9 Computing (L9). / The Silicon Dreams trilogy is a series of text-based science fiction Adventures. The first game, Snowball (1983 L9, Atari8, C64, Spectrum; 1984 Amstrad, MSX) designed by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, Pete Austin, is set aboard a slower than light colony starship (the "Snowball 9") approaching its destination in the solar system of 40 Eridani A. The ship ...
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 ...