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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Archer, Lee
Ziff-Davis House Name used 1956-1957 on three stories in Amazing and Fantastic. "Escape Route" (March 1957 Amazing) is by Harlan Ellison. The authors of the others have not been identified, though "Peter Merton's Private Mint" (October 1956 Fantastic) has also, implausibly, been ...
Wilson, Robert Anton
(1932-2007) US author who remains best known for the first Illuminatus! sequence – The Eye in the Pyramid (1975), The Golden Apple (1975) and Leviathan (1975), assembled as The Illuminatus Trilogy (omni 1984) – all written with Robert J Shea. Shea did not collaborate with Wilson on Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977), The Illuminati Papers ...
American Cyborg: Steel Warrior
Film (1993). Yoram Globus and Christopher Pearce Present a Global Pictures Production. Executive producers Amnon Globus and Marcos Szwarcfiter, produced Marti Raz, directed by Boaz Davidson. Written by Brent Friedman and Bill Crounse and Don Pequignot, based on a story by Davidson and Pearce. Cast includes Nicole Hansen, Joe Lara and John Ryan. 94 minutes. Colour. / The production background is obscure, but this straight-to-video exploitation thriller appears to be, unusually, an ...
Obreht, Téa
(1985- ) Yugoslavia/Serbia-born author, in US from the age of twelve. Her birth name was Téa Bajraktarević; she took her grandfather's surname in 2006. Her first novel, The Tiger's Wife (2010), arguably replicating Obreht's closeness to her grandfather, is structured around the tales told a young doctor by her grandfather. These tales, featuring a man who does not die and a deaf-mute girl, dextrously interact with ...
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 ...