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Moore, Chris
(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...
Capobianco, Michael
(1950- ) US author, married until her death to A C Crispin, whose most significant work has been in collaboration with William Barton (whom see for details). His solo novel, Burster (1990), examines the stresses afflicting those aboard a Generation Starship which has left an Earth that was possibly at the brink of destruction. Capobianco was ...
Hutchison, Don
(1931- ) Canadian cinematographer, editor, journalist and author, also long involved in sf Fandom in Canada; his fiction of interest is limited to one story, "Let the Serpent Beguile" (Trumpet #6 1967). The Great Pulp Heroes (1995) is a useful nonfiction study, occasionally breezy. He remains best known for his Northern Frights Original Anthology sequence beginning with ...
Smith, Garret
(1878-1954) US journalist, newspaper editor and author who was active with sf stories in magazines like The Argosy, where several novels appeared. Only Between Worlds (11 October-8 November 1919 Argosy Weekly; 1929), one of his weakest, reached book form; it is a semi-juvenile tale that begins on a Dystopian Venus as male explorers from its light ...
Kashin, Oleg
(1980- ) Russian journalist and author in whose first novel, Roissia vperde: fantasticheskaia povest' (2011; trans Will Evans as Fardwor, Russia!: A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin 2016), grotesquely inept Eugenic experiments in Genetic Engineering produce misshapen giant children (see Great and Small), the ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...