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Fulves, Karl
Working name of US magician and author Carl Anthony Fulves (1938-2023), who published many books and essays about stage magic, card tricks and sleight of hand, including a series on "self-working" tricks for Dover Books [not listed below]; he edited several magic-related journals. His one work of sf, Aftermath: Stories from the Rigel War (coll of linked stories 1976), is both a "force book" designed to aid mind-reading tricks (in which the mentalist divines which words or pages ...
Abrahams, Mort
(1916-2009) US film and television producer who began his career as producer of Tom Corbett: Space Cadet (1950-1955). From 1951 to 1953 he produced seven segments of the anthology series Tales of Tomorrow (1951-1956), and later (1965-1966) nine episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968). Abrahams was associate producer of ...
Golding, Morton J
(1925-2015) US author who also wrote as by Stephanie Lloyd, Jay Martin and Patricia Morton; he is of sf interest for Night Mare (1970), whose scientist protagonist Michael Erasmus, deeply involved in his search for a unified field theory (see Physics), finds himself penetrating what may be an Equipoisal fantasy-inflected Parallel World, where he feels his ...
Emmerton, Anton
(? - ) US author of two Near Future adventure thrillers, Blood Red Sky (1985), which involves a secret weapon, and High Command (1986), in which Britain has been taken over by the USSR; Ghost Pilot (1987) is a World War Two ghost story involving a revenant pilot. [JC]
Akudama Drive
Japanese animated tv series (2020). Created by Pierrot and Too Kyo Games. Pierrot (studio). Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi. Written by Norimitsu Kaihō and Tomohisa Taguchi. Voice cast includes Shun Horie, Kana Ichinose, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Megumi Ogata, Takahiro Sakurai, Shunsuke Takeuchi, Maaya Uchida and Yūichirō Umehara. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / In the Near Future Japanese ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...