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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 ...
Columbia Workshop
Radio series (1936-1943; 1946-1947). CBS Radio for CBS Radio Network. Producers included Nila Mack and William N Robson. Directors included Irving Reis (1906-1953), Earle MacGill, Robson, Myron Sattler (?1907-?1981), Nila Mack, others. Staff writers included Stephen Vincent Benét, Richard Hughes, Vic Knight, Reis and Robson. Several hundred 60-minute episodes were produced, some as two-part serials. At ...
Salvatore, R A
(1959- ) US author, almost exclusively of Fantasy, and a specialist in the Forgotten Realms fantasy universe, for which he has written many Ties (his pure fantasy is not listed below). The Chronicles of Ynis Aielle sequence, opening with Echoes of the Fourth Magic (1990) is essentially fantasy but set on a future Post-Holocaust Earth where ...
Lottem, Emanuel
(1944-2024) Israeli translator and editor, active since the 1970s, in which capacities he was instrumental in introducing genre sf to an Israeli audience. He was formerly a lecturer in economics and in the diplomatic service. / He began translating for the publishing house Keter as a way of supplementing his income. When Keter decided to launch a new science fiction imprint, Lottem became its first editor. The White Series, as it became known – due to ...
McCutcheon, Pam
(1955- ) US Air Force officer (retired), civil servant and author who is primarily of sf interest for her romantic Delphi sequence, a Planetary Romance beginning with Golden Prophecies (1995), set mainly on the lost colony planet Delphi, with some implication that a Long Night had passed before its rediscovery. Visiting Terrans on rehabilitative missions find ...
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 ...