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White, Ted
Working name of US editor and author Theodore Edwin White (1938-2026), who also wrote as by Ron Archer, Norman Edwards and William C Johnstone. He was co-editor 1958-1969 of the noted Fanzine Void founded by Gregory Benford and Jim Benford. After working as assistant editor for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1963-1968, he became the sometimes ...
Dellamonica, A M
(1968- ) Canadian author, married to Kelly Robson, who also writes as by L X Beckett (sometimes given as Lex Beckett), most of their earlier work being fantasy. They began to publish work of genre interest with "Lucre's Egg" in Crank! for Autumn 1994; A Key to the Illuminated Heretic (in Alternate Generals III (anth 2005) edited by Harry Turtledove; ...
Brewer, Gene
(1937- ) US author of the K-PAX sequence featuring a protagonist calling himself "prot" (lower case, rhyming with "boat") who claims to his psychiatrist "Gene Brewer" in the ward where he has been detained that he is a visiting Alien, 337 years old, from the planet K-PAX. Throughout the initial trilogy – which comprises K-PAX (1995), On a Beam of Light (2001; vt K-PAX II: On a Beam of Light ...
Yuri Kuma Arashi
Japanese animated tv series (2015; vt Yuri Bear Storm). Silver Link. Directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. Written by Takayo Ikami and Kunihiko Ikuhara. Voice cast includes Miho Arakawa, Yoshiko Ikuta, Yui Ogura and Nozomi Yamane. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / When the minor planet (see Asteroids) Kumalia explodes some of its fragments reach the Earth as a meteor shower, causing bears to rise up and attack humans; the ...
Curran, Kim
(? - ) Irish advertising copywriter and author of a Young Adult series, the Scott Tyler sequence comprising Shift (2012), Control (2013) and Delete (2014), set in an Alternate World version of London where Shifting – an apparent Psi Power – allows teenagers to alter ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...