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Meier, Shirley
(1960- ) Canadian author, artist and poet who began to publish work of genre interest in the Shared World of the Fifth Millennium Fantasy series which she co-created with S M Stirling: Meier's credited contributions begin with The Sharpest Edge (1986; vt Saber and Shadow 1992) with S M ...
Cicellis, Kay
Working name of Catherine Mathilda Cicellis (1926-2001), French-born author of Greek descent who writes in English. Her sf novel The Day the Fish Came Out (1967), which novelizes The Day the Fish Came Out (1967), is about an H-bomb and the consequences of its loss off a Greek island; it is not up to the standard of her serious work. [JC]
Perry, S D
(1970- ) US author, daughter of Steve Perry, who has also written as Stephani Perry; in her career to date she has specialized in Ties for various universes. Her contributions to the Aliens universe begin with Aliens: The Female War (1993) as Stephani Perry with Steve Perry; her Resident Evil novels – ...
Rocket's Blast Comicollector
US photocopied Comics Fanzine/Semiprozine published on good-quality paper. Published by the Science Fiction and Comics Fan Association. Editors included G B Love and James Van Hise. 125 issues for 1964 to 1983, numbered #29-#153. Publication was monthly to 1978; thereafter nominally bimonthly but increasingly erratic from 1979. / This began with the 1962 merger of two Fanzines ...
West, D
Working name of UK author, artist and critic Donald West (1945-2015), active in Fandom from the early 1970s, his first publication being Illustrations to J.R.R. Tolkien (graph 1971 chap); his fanzine DAISNAID (Do As I Say Not As I Do) appeared irregularly from 1976 to 1997. He began to publish fiction of genre interest with the sf tale "The Pit" in The Gollancz/Sunday Times Best SF Stories (anth 1975; vt Let's Go to Golgotha ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...