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Demon Lord 2099
Japanese animated tv series (2024; original title Maō 2099). J C Staff. Directed by Ryō Andō. Written by Yūichirō Momose, based on the Manga by Daigo Murasaki and Kureta. Voice cast includes Hana Hishikawa, Satoshi Hino, Miku Itō, Masaya Matsukaze, Daisuke Namikawa and Kaori Nazuka. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / Nearly 500 years ago the war in Alneath between mortals and ...
Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa was a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, much influenced by Third Person Shooters. In the game's back-story a Near Future Earth had been invaded by an Alien empire. The attackers were ruled by a race known as the Bane, an offshoot of a Forerunner civilization which ...
Ransmayr, Christoph
(1954- ) Austrian editor and author, active from the late 1970s, mostly in Ireland 1994-2006. His first novel, Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis (1984; trans John E Woods as The Terrors of Ice and Darkness 1991) verges upon but does not engage with the aura of Fantastika that tends to influence novels set in unexplored Arctic regions. His second, Die letzte Welt ...
Dae, Koji A
(? ) US poet and author, for some time resident in Bulgaria. Mazi (2024) is a horror tale set in Bulgaria with troubled Sex. Her first full-length tale, the Near Future Casual (2025), examines questions of Identity through the troubled experiences of a pregnant woman forbidden the use of an anxiety-control app by an increasingly ...
Elliott, Janice
(1931-1995) UK author from 1962 of sophisticated novels of domestic passion which frequently reach for a sense of brooding Equipoise with the supernatural and, occasionally, sf. Her sf novel, The Summer People (1980), places in a Near-Future world one of her typical casts, who decide it would be a good idea, while society collapses off-stage, to remain esconced in their holiday resort for the time being; a similar ...
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 ...