Guy H. Lillian III is a science fiction fanzine publisher notable for having been twice nominated for a Hugo Award

Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

 as best fan writer and having had a row of 12 nominations (without winning) for best fanzine for Challenger.

Having studied English at Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, writing at the Greensboro, and law at New Orleans, he practices as a defense lawyer in the field of criminal law in Louisiana

Louisiana

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 as his day job.

As a fan of the comic book Green Lantern

Green Lantern

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, Lillian's name was tributized for the title's 1968 debut character Guy Gardner

Guy Gardner (comics)

Guy Gardner is a fictional character, a comic book superhero published by DC Comics. He is a core member of the Green Lantern family of characters, and for a time was also a significant member of the Justice League family of characters.He was created by John Broome and Gil Kane in Green Lantern...

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