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Teller, Astro
Working name of UK-born entrepreneur and author Eric Z Teller (1970- ), in USA (his parents are American) from early childhood; he is of sf interest for Exegesis (1997), an epistolary novel comprising email correspondence between an AI and the woman striving to gain credit for (and intellectual property rights upon) its Invention. Some of the interactions depicted evoke echoes of the ...
Raine, Craig
(1944- ) UK poet whose first book, The Onion, Memory (coll 1978 chap), demonstrated his capacity to illuminate the world through estranged images, a technique which came to full fruition in A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (coll 1979 chap), the title poem of which represents – in language which convincingly manifests a principle central to Fantastika as a whole, that the fantastic may be best grasped through ...
Simpson, Howard
(? - ) US author whose routine sf novel is West of the Moon (1968). [JC/DRL] /
Hoyne, Thomas Temple
(1875-1946) US author, a popularizer of Economics topics, and author of Intrigue on the Upper Level: A Story of Crime, Love, Adventure and Revolt in 2050 A.D. (1934), in which a primitive, hierarchical, gangster-run capitalist society is riven by discontent among the lower orders, and is eventually overthrown. [JC]
Doom
Videogame (1993). id Software (id). Designed by John Romero, John Carmack, Tom Hall, Sandy Petersen. Platforms: DOS (1993); 32X, Jaguar, Lin, Mainframe (1994); Mac, PS1, SNES (1995); 3DO, Win (1996); Saturn (1997); Archimedes (1998); GBA (2001); XBox (2005); XB360 (2006); Others. / Doom is not the original ...
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 ...