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} }) </script> </div> </form> </fieldset> <article class="entryArticle content STeditorial"> <header class="entryHeader icon-logo"> <h1 class="entryTitle"><i>SF Encyclopedia</i> Home Page<br />Thursday 27 February 2025 </h1> </header> <p style="line-height: 200%;"><big><i><b>Welcome</b> to the <b>Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</b>, <a href="/this-site">Fourth Edition</a>. Some sample entries appear below. <a href="/entry/introduction_to_the_third_edition">Click here for the Introduction</a>; <a href="/masthead">here for the masthead</a>; <a href="/entry/acknowledgments">here for Acknowledgments</a>; <a href="/frequently-asked-questions">here for the FAQ</a>; <a href="/advice-to-students">here for advice on citations</a>. Find entries via the search box above (<a href="/searching">more details here</a>) or browse the menu categories in the grey bar at the top of this page.</i></big><a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.nl/@ansible"></a><a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.social/@SF_Encyclopedia"></a></p> <p align=center><b>Site updated on 24 February 2025<br /><b class='tweakSpon'><i>Sponsor of the day:</i> <a href="/entry/hopen_stuart">Stuart Hopen</a></b></b></p><h2><a href="/entry/moore_chris" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Moore, Chris</a></h2> <p>(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of <a href="/entry/hard_sf">Hard SF</a> subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of <i>scale</i>, achieved largely through a ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/moore_chris" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <h2><a href="/entry/kuprin_alexander" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Kuprin, Alexander</a></h2> <p>(1870-1938) <a href="/entry/russia">Russian</a> author, active from before 1890, whose first novella of significance, "Moloch" (December 1896 <i>Russkoye Bogatstvo</i>), goes to extremities akin to <a href="/entry/fantastika">Fantastika</a> in its attempts to render the terror and disastrousness of unfettered capitalist exploitation. Most of his remaining oeuvre is nonfantastic, though some sf is assembled in a French translation, <i>Le soleil liquide et autres récits fantastiques</i> ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/kuprin_alexander" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <h2><a href="/entry/cosmos_science_fiction_and_fantasy_magazine" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine</a></h2> <p><b>1.</b> US <a href="/entry/digest">Digest</a>-size magazine. 4 issues, irregular, September 1953 to July 1954, published by Star Publications; edited by L B Cole. This was an unremarkable magazine of moderate standard which published no memorable fiction; the actual editing was done by Laurence M <a href="/entry/janifer_laurence_m">Janifer</a> at the Scott Meredith Literary Agency. Meredith had arranged a packaging deal with a number of publishers to produce crime, mystery and sf magazines ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/cosmos_science_fiction_and_fantasy_magazine" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <h2><a href="/entry/tobey_danny" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Tobey, Danny</a></h2> <p>(1976-    ) US lawyer specializing in technology law with an emphasis on <a href="/entry/ai">AI</a> developments and medical issues, and author. In his first novel, <i>The Faculty Club</i> (<b>2010</b>), an elite American college is found to have gained its pre-eminence by the fact that, at its heart, a society of <a href="/entry/secret_masters">Secret Masters</a> has from time immemorial been attempting to govern the world, partly through the enactment of voodoo rituals. ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/tobey_danny" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <h2><a href="/entry/andre-driussi_michael" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Andre-Driussi, Michael</a></h2> <p>(1962-    ) US scholar and author best known for his elucidative bibliographical, lexicographical and archaeological investigations into the decipherment of the more difficult texts of Gene <a href="/entry/wolfe_gene">Wolfe</a>. His illuminating guide to Wolfe's <b>The Book of the New Sun</b> sequence in <i>Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle</i> (<b>1994</b>; exp <b>2008</b>) – see Checklist below for ancillary pamphlets later integrated into the ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/andre-driussi_michael" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <h2><a href="/entry/clute_john" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Clute, John</a></h2> <p>(1940-    ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith <a href="/entry/clute_judith">Clute</a> from 1964, partner of Elizabeth <a href="/entry/hand_elizabeth">Hand</a> since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in <i>Triquarterly</i> for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the <i>Toronto Star</i> (1966-1967), and later in ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/clute_john" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <br /><br /></article></div> <div class="sideBarsWrapper"> <div class="sideBarsColsWrapper clearfix"> <div class="column sideBar12 clearfix"> <div class="columnForm"><aside id="blogFeed" class="widget"> <div class="content STeditorial clearfix"> <h2><i>SFE</i> News<span style="background:url(/images/thingSFE2.png) !important"></span></h2><ul style='width: 50%; float: left;'> <li>01/12/24  <a href='/news/welcome_gutenberg'>Welcome Gutenberg</a></li> <li>24/06/24  <a href='/news/thanks_to_conversation_2023'>Thanks to Conversation 2023</a></li> <li>09/05/24  <a href='/news/seven_million_words'>Seven Million Words</a></li> <li>22/03/24  <a href='/news/vernor_vinge'>Vernor Vinge (1944-2024)</a></li> <li>27/02/24  <a href='/news/brian_stableford'>Brian Stableford (1948-2024)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/news/"><img src="/static/img/moreLink.png" style="position:relative; 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