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Futuristic Science Stories
UK pocketbook-size magazine, published by John Spencer, London. Edited by John S Manning, a pseudonym of publishers Samuel Assael and Maurice Nahum. 16 issues, numbered, undated, 1950-1958; #1-#15 appeared 1950-1954; #16 did not appear until 1958. / Futuristic Science Stories was one of four almost identical low-quality sf magazines – all of minimal interest – published by Spencer in the 1950s; the ...
King of Tokyo
Board Game (2011). Iello. Designed by Richard Garfield. / King of Tokyo is in many ways the absolute opposite of his prior invention, the Collectible Card Game Magic The Gathering. King of Tokyo is a board game that is quick and easy to play, and does not require any form of collecting or accruing new pieces, cards or upgrades. It is a good ...
Collins, Bridget
(1981- ) UK actor and author active in the latter capacity, usually as by B R Collins, from the publication of The Traitor Game (2008), the first of several Young Adult novels, some containing fantasy elements. She is of wider interest for her two adult novels. The Binding (2019) is a fantasy about the ability of Story to tell the life of its teller. The Betrayals (2020) is no more fantasy than ...
Rayer, Francis G
(1921-1981) UK author and technical journalist (specializing in radio issues) who began publishing with Juggernaut (1944) for Link House Publications. His first sf novel was the unremarkable Realm of the Alien (1946 chap) as by Chester Delray, and his most notable was perhaps Tomorrow Sometimes Comes (1951), in which the general who has inadvertently caused a nuclear Holocaust awakens from ...
Ward, David
(? - ) Canadian author whose Young Adult Perimeter One Adventures series, beginning with Perimeter One Adventures #1: The Misenberg Accelerator (1994), comprises a set of Near Future adventures experienced by the Graham family in the knowledge that God (see Religion) is on their side against various enemies. Ward should not be confused with ...
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 ...