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Coon, Horace C
(1897-1961) US author, usually of nonfiction on cultural and political and business issues, in whose 43,000 Years Later (1958) Aliens come to a Ruined Earth, become intrigued by the civilization that had destroyed itself 43,000 years before (see Ruins and Futurity), and, through records, explore the twentieth-century world to Satirical effect. They spend ...
Parowski, Maciej
(1946-2019) Polish author, editor, literary and film critic, co-author and popularizer of Comics and Graphic Novels, since 1982 closely connected with Fantastyka (the first Polish magazine entirely dedicated to Fantastika), which he co-founded and where he has been the editor of Polish fiction for the whole of its thirty-year existence. In the late 1960s and early 1970s ...
Mendum, Bedloe
(1875-? ) US art expert, copyeditor and author of The Barbarian and Other Stories (coll 1899), whose long title tale is a Satire depicting from the viewpoint of a Chinese immigrant a Dystopia called Vulgaria, clearly intended to stand for America. Technology and Transportation are advanced, but the population is corrupt and foolish. [JC]
Egal, Rose
(? - ) UK biochemist and author whose Young Adult tale The Sevenfold Hunters (2022) pits a close-knit cohort of teenagers with Superpowers against Vampiric Aliens who have carried out an Invasion of Earth [for Seven Samurai see The ...
Natali, Vincenzo
US-born Canadian filmmaker (1969- ) who began his career as a storyboard artist for animation, in which capacity he worked (but was not credited) on Johnny Mnemonic (1995). His feature debut, as co-writer and director, was the Mathematics-based Horror film Cube (1997); he subsequently directed episodes of ...
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 ...