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Broderick, Damien
(1944-2025) Australian author, editor and critic; he had a PhD in the semiotics of fiction, science and sf with special reference to the work of Samuel R Delany. He edited four anthologies of Australian sf: The Zeitgeist Machine (anth 1977), Strange Attractors (anth 1985), Matilda at the Speed of Light (anth 1988) and Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (anth ...
Invader Zim
US animated tv series (2001-2002, 2006). Nickelodeon/Nicktoons Network. Created by Jhonen Vasquez, also executive producer. Writers include Frank Conniff, Rob Hummel, Eric Trueheart and Jhonen Vasquez. Directors: Jordan Reichek and Steve Ressel. Voice cast includes Andy Berman, Lucille Bliss, Melissa Fahn, Richard Steven Horvitz and Rikki Simons. 27 22-minute episodes, most with two stories. Colour. / After Zim (Horvitz), a member of the planet-conquering Irken race, ...
Carey, C J
Pseudonym of Venezuelan-born journalist and author Jane Catherine Thynne (1961- ), in the UK from childhood; married to Philip Kerr until his death in 2018. Her fiction under her own name is nonfantastic; she is best known for the Clara Vine series of thrillers set in Germany before World War Two [not listed below]. She is of sf interest for the Rose Ransom sequence beginning with ...
Stringer, Arthur
(1874-1950) Canadian poet and author, in the US from 1898; prolific in several genres from 1894, though he concentrated on survival tales set in the northern wilderness of his native land. The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (coll 1919) and The Wolf Woman (1928) are fantasy. Of sf interest are a film tie, The Story Without a Name (1924) with Russell Holman, in which a Death Ray appears, an ...
DiMarco, Jennifer
(1973- ) US publisher and author, usually on Gender issues, who is best known for the Patriarchy sequence, beginning with Escape to the Wind (1993), set in a Post-Holocaust Seattle run by an anti-female junta. Other work includes at least two novels, Immortality (1999) and Dragon Storm (2000). Her publishing firm, Pride & Imprints, claims to release books ...
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 ...