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Slant
UK Fanzine (1948-1953) edited from Belfast by Walt Willis. Seven issues, December 1948 to Winter 1952. / Neatly hand-printed on a small letterpress machine, and containing lino-cut illustrations by James White and Bob Shaw, Slant is best remembered for introducing the Irish Fandom of that era – principally Willis, Shaw and White ...
Ober, Damien
(? - ) US screenwriter and author, active from 2010 or earlier, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Endless Sink" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet for September 2014. He is of direct sf interest for his first novel, Voidverse (2026), a Space Opera whose protagonist, escaping from the aftermath of destruction caused by a ...
Ohlander, Ben
(1965- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with the short fantasy "Smoke and Mirrors" in Magic: The Gathering: Tapestries (anth 1995) edited by Kathy Ice and Tied to the Collectible Card Game. His novels are Enemy of My Enemy (1995) with David Drake, a tie (written chiefly by Ohlander) to the ...
Murphy, Kevin Andrew
(? - ) US author and game designer who began to publish fiction of genre interest with "Masquerade" in The Beast Within (anth 1994) edited by Stewart Wieck. His first book-length tales appeared in 2002: The World Below (2002), novelizing the first volume of the Comics series Fathom (1998-current) created by Michael Turner, which centres on one female member of a race of aquatic humanoids ...
"Space" Kingley
The tough and resourceful Captain "Space" Kingley was the hero of three UK children's Space-Opera annuals of the early 1950s. Beyond his pukka Britishness he displayed few individual characteristics. The sequence (which remains extremely difficult to date precisely; the dates here may not be reliable) comprises The Adventures of Captain "Space" Kingley (coll 1952) with stories by Ray Sonin, ...
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 ...