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Fabian, Stephen E
(1930-2025) American artist, sometimes credited as Steve Fabian or simply Fabian. The self-trained Fabian first worked as an electronic engineer, but he began contributing art to Fanzines in the late 1960s and became a full-time professional artist in 1973. He did a number of covers and interior art for SF Magazines, mostly Amazing, Fantastic, and ...
McKenna, Richard M
(1913-1964) US author who spent most of his adult career (from 1931 to 1953), not very happily, in the US Navy. After returning to civilian life, he took a BA in literature at the University of North Carolina. His stories intertwined Hard SF themes such as Space Flight and Time Travel with soft sciences, notably Psychology and cultural ...
Bishop, K J
(1972- ) Australian author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Art of Dying" for Aurealis in 1997, which with other stories was assembled as That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote (coll 2012). She came into sudden recognition with her first novel, The Etched City (2003; rev 2004), a tale whose venue shares with the earlier work of M John Harrison a culture and a poisonous ...
Chester, William L
(1907-1971) US author whose various occupations included bank clerk, realtor and hospital administrator. He is known for his 1930s Blue Book magazine series about Kioga, a Tarzan-like white child raised on a vast Island Lost World within the Arctic Circle, somewhere in northern Siberia but heated by thermal springs and unknown currents, from which he escapes ...
Olan, Susan Torian
(1947-1999) US author whose The Earth Remembers (1990) is a cagily written example of the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink variety of Post-Holocaust fiction. Taking the form of a Western set along the Texas-Mexico border, the tale features Mutants, Amerindians and nuclear devices along with the usual protagonists and antagonists. [JC]
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...