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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
FAPA
The commonly used acronym for the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, formed in 1937 in the USA by John B Michel and Donald A Wollheim to facilitate distribution on an APA basis of Fanzines published by and for members; it was the first of many such groups in sf Fandom (created in the pattern of older non-fan "amateur journalism" or "ajay" APAs ...
Hyne, C J Cutcliffe
(1866-1944) UK author who also wrote as by Aunt Ermyntrude (an advice to the lovelorn column), as by Weatherby Chesney, and apparently under other undisclosed pseudonyms. He began producing work of sf interest with Beneath Your Very Boots: Being a Few Striking Episodes from the Life of Anthony Merlwood Haltoun, Esq (1889), a Lost-World tale set in caves under England, where a clement Underground quasi- ...
Space-Wise
UK A4-size magazine. Four issues, December 1969, January, March and #4 [May] 1970, published by the Martec Publishing Group; edited by Derek R Threadgall. Space-Wise contained a mixture of sf, science and occult articles along the theme of how space (of any kind) affects our lives. It carried a serial, "Marsh Gibbon Where Are You?" (#1-#4) by Bernard Rickman and usually one story per issue. The final issue included the first published story by Mike ...
Darvill-Evans, Peter
(1954- ) UK author and editor, involved in the Games world from about 1976, initiating his writing career with three Fighting Fantasy Ties beginning with Fighting Fantasy Gamebook 25: Beneath Nightmare Castle (1987). He is best-known for his creating for Virgin Books and editing the New Adventures sub-sequence of the overall ...
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 ...