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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld (see Flat Earth) resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the ...
Media Spotlight
US Media Magazine, the first issue tabloid-size, the remainder in letter-size saddle-stapled format printed on newsprint. Publisher: IRJAX Publications Incorporated. Editor: Jason Thomas under his best-known pseudonym Tom Rogers. Five numbered issues 1975-1977. Publication schedule was erratic. / Several people formerly associated with The Monster Times were connected with this magazine, a ...
Weird and Occult Library
UK pocketbook magazine, three numbered, undated issues 1960; published by G G Swan, London; no editor named, but was Gerald Swan (1902-1981). Weird and Occult contained a mixture of weird, sf and mystery stories, most of which had been gathering dust in Swan's drawer since World War Two. Unlike its companion, Science Fiction Library, the fiction was mostly by British writers including A M Burrage and John Russell ...
Wander over Yonder
US animated tv series (2013-2016). Disney Television Animation (see Disney on Television). Created by Craig McCracken. Directors include Dave Thomas and Eddie Trigueros. Writers include Francisco Angones, Robin Budd, Amy Higgins, Ben Joseph and Craig McCracken. Voice cast includes Jack McBrayer, Keith Ferguson, Tom Kenny, Noël Wells and April Winchell. 43 22-minute episodes (usually with two segments) and ...
Afrikaans SF
Only four texts by writers of Afrikaans Speculative Fiction, strictly understood, had been translated into English as of 2024. The Afrikaans language, rooted in South Africa and spoken by descendants of Dutch, German, and French colonists, is one of that country's eleven official languages, recognized as such in 1925. European presence in South Africa reaches back to the mid-fifteenth century, intensifying in the mid-seventeenth century, when the ...
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 ...