Philip Harbottle (born 1941) is a British official best known as a science-fiction researcher and critic specializing in the

British science fiction British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (SFE) is an English language reference work on science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and f ...

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John Russell Fearn John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British writer, one of the first to appear in American pulp magazine, pulp science fiction magazines. A prolific author, he published his novels also as Vargo Statten and with various pseudonyms including T ...

", whose literary estate he represents,. Harbottle also penned up several biographical articles and monographs on Fearn. He was the editor the '' Vision of Tomorrow'' magazine (from August 1969-September 1970) and several anthologies.

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