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Miller, Phyllis
(1920-2001) US librarian and author who collaborated with Andre Norton on three novels for children. Seven Spells to Sunday (1979) and House of Shadows (1984) are Fantasies, the former featuring travel to a magical Dimension and the latter being a supernatural thriller; Ride the Green Dragon (1985) is a nonfantastic tale of mystery and suspense. [DRL]
Hazbin Hotel
US animated webseries (2019; 2024-current). Spindle House, Bento Box Entertainment. Created and directed by Vivienne Medrano. Writers include David Capdevielle, Raymond Hernandez, Ariel Ladensohn, Vivienne Medrano and Adam Stein. Voice cast includes Edward Bosco, Alex Brightman, Gabriel C Brown, Monica Franco, Jill Harris, Elsie Lovelock, Michael Kovach, Mike Lauer, Michelle Marie, Will Stamper and Jessica Vosk. Nine episodes of 24-32 minutes. Colour. / The pilot webfilm was ...
Reizin, P Z
(? - ) UK Television and print journalist and author whose first novel, the Near Future Happiness for Humans (2018), explores the increasingly invasive interface between Homo sapiens and AIs, whose access to their human "users" is shown as having grown exponentially, with dangerous consequences when (as here) the AI in question gains consciousness. ...
Wiggins, Todd
(1962- ) US-born author, in UK in the 1990s, married during the 1990s (dates unknown) to Tricia Sullivan. His sf novel, Zeitgeist (1996), follows several lifestyle extremists in a Near Future chase through America as the Millennium threatens to disrupt reality. The Satire, and likewise the Sex, is violent. [JC]
Farley, Ralph Milne
Pseudonym of US constitutional lawyer, author and teacher Roger Sherman Hoar (1887-1963) for all his sf work except two 1938 stories published in Amazing as by Lt John Pease. Hoar was educated at Harvard and had a remarkably varied career, which included teaching such subjects as mathematics and engineering, inventing a system of aiming large guns by the stars, and serving as a Massachusetts state senator. His early sf work in the Pulp ...
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 ...