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Sarrantonio, Al

(1952-2025) US editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ahead of the Joneses" in Asimov's for March 1979. Much of his work was horror, sometimes tinged with sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Worms (1985), a Gothic tale set in Massachusetts with hints of H P Lovecraft; and the Equipoisal Moonbane ...

Luna, Kris

A House Name used twice for Curtis Warren publications: Stella Radium Discharge (1952) by David O'Brien – continuing his International Research Council Future History sequence whose previous titles had appeared as by Berl Cameron – and Operation Orbit (1953) by William Henry ...

Rawle, Graham

(1955-2024) UK artist, designer and author, best known for the long Lost Consonants series of comic collages released from 1990 to 2005; his profusely illustrated 2009 edition of L Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz (1900), using the original text, won him two British Book Design and Production awards. He is of some sf interest for Overland (2018), which fantasticates an historical event from 1942: the construction of a fake town ...

Velez, Walter

(1939-2018) American artist. After extensive artistic training, Velez entered the field of commercial art, mostly focusing on advertising though he also did some album covers for Latino musicians. He began working on sf and Fantasy book covers in the late 1970s and quickly showed that he could provide covers with interesting tableaux of distinctively rendered human figures, like the friendly scoundrels drinking at an inn on the cover of Robert ...

Hammond, Ray

(1948-    ) UK science journalist, futurologist and author; his nonfiction includes The On-Line Handbook (1984) and The World in 2030 (2007), which predicts and describes the Singularity. He began publishing sf novels with Emergence (2001), which explores a billionaire tycoon's attempts to save the Near Future world through simplistic tampering with threatened ...

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 ...



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