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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
de Chomón, Segundo
(1871-1929) Spanish/Catalan (see Catalan SF) silent film director, cinematographer and writer who worked on many films (see Cinema) for the French film company Pathé Frères. Whilst in Spain he made Gulliver en el país de los gigantes (1903; vt Gulliver in the Land of Giants) – not to be confused with Georges Méliès's ...
Smith, Ron
(1936-1987) US fan who with his wife Cindy Smith published the Fanzine Inside from September 1952. Contributions included stories by David R Bunch, Harlan Ellison, Charles E Fritch, Kris Neville and William F Nolan; articles and reviews by Forrest J ...
Zahir
US low-paying literary magazine which ran for 28 quarterly issues from Summer 2003 to October 2011. It was published by Zahir Publishing, Encinitas, California and edited by Sheryl Tempchin. It was initially a Print Magazine with twenty quarterly issues from Summer 2003 to Winter 2009. From issue #21 (January 2010) it became an Online Magazine, retaining its quarterly schedule but ceased with issue #28 (October 2011). ...
Mandino, Og
Working name of Italian-born author Augustine Mandino II (1923-1996), in US from childhood, most of whose work promulgates self-help with a Christian tint. Of some sf interest is his novel, The Christ Commission (1980), which features Time Travel to the time of Jesus. [JC]
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 ...