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Novae Terrae
UK Fanzine initially edited by Maurice K Hanson (see below for later changes). 33 issues, March 1936 to January 1939. / Novae Terrae was the earliest true fanzine in the UK. Maurice K Hanson first edited it for the Nuneaton chapter of the Science Fiction League, with his friend D R Smith a columnist from #2 (April 1936); and then, from #10 (February 1937), for the pre-World War Two ...
Monitors, The
Film (1969). Bell & Howell Productions/Commonwealth United/Second City. Directed by Jack Shea. Written by Myron J Gold, based on The Monitors (1966) by Keith Laumer. Cast includes Ed Begley (cameo), Sherry Jackson, Susan Oliver, Avery Schreiber, Guy Stockwell and Keenan Wynn (cameo). 92 minutes. Colour. / Filled with bizarre jokes and moments of stunning banality, this film – or string of revue sketches – made in Chicago ...
Kirk, Hyland C
(1846-1917) US author of speculative nonfiction, including the nonfiction The Possibility of Not Dying (1883); his two books of sf interest are When Age Grows Young (1888), a Utopia set in the Near Future where technological progress has brought felicity and a chance of Immortality; and The Revolt of the Brutes: A Fantasy of the Chicago Fair (1893), a tale of ...
Poole, Gary
(? - ) US editor, in collaboration with John Ringo, of Original Anthologies set in the universe of the latter's Black Tide Rising Zombie apocalypse sequence; the first of these anthologies is Black Tide Rising (anth 2016) with John Ringo. [DRL]
Kurimoto Kaoru
Working name of Sumiyo Yamada (1953-2009), sometimes known under her married name Sumiyo Imaoka or by her pseudonym Azusa Nakajima; an immensely prolific author, mainly in the Fantasy mode, but with strong enough connections to the sf community to ensure attention and accolades at the Seiun Awards. As a celebrity, commentator, critic and novelist, she was arguably one of the most influential ...
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 ...