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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 ...
Darrington, Hugh
(1940- ) UK author whose sf novels are The God Killers (1970) with Tony Halliwell, both authors signing as James Ross, and Gravitor (1971), which features an oppressed world and a scientific plot to increase Gravity, causing chaos ... to the advantage of the plotters. [JC]
Repp, Ed Earl
(1901-1979) US advertising man, newspaper reporter and author; he wrote a large number of fairly unremarkable Pulp-magazine adventures for about a decade from 1929, ceasing to produce sf during World War Two, after his work as a screenwriter began to pick up; between 1934 and 1957 he wrote about fifty scripts, all Westerns. Some of his short fiction appeared as by Bradnor Buckner. His first sf story – "Beyond Gravity" for ...
Archimedean Dynasty
Videogame (1996; vt Silent Running in Germany). Massive Development (MD). Designed by Alexander Jorias, Helmut Halfmann. Platforms: DOS. / Archimedean Dynasty is an example of an unusual Videogame form, the "sub sim" – a Space Sim which has been transposed from an interplanetary to an underwater milieu. Its ocean world is displayed in real time and in three dimensions when ...
Alien Resurrection
Film (1997). Twentieth Century Fox/A Brandywine Production. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Joss Whedon. Cast includes Brad Dourif, J E Freeman, Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Winona Ryder, Sigourney Weaver and Michael Wincott. 109 minutes. Colour. / This is the fourth, and presumably final, film in the Alien series, released eighteen years after the first, and set 200 years after the third. (We do not count as ...
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 ...