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Antill, Keith
(1929-1999) Australian broadcaster and author in whose sf novel, Moon in the Ground (1979), an unpleasant American military intelligence unit battles to extract an Alien AI from Australian territory. The Australians (and the Russians) resist. [JC]
Acevedo, Rafael
(1960- ) Puerto Rican professor of Spanish Literature in the Universidad de Puerto Rico, at Río Piedras, and author. Acevedo is one of the most important poets of the 1980s generation, and a relevant cultural figure on the island of Puerto Rico. He directed the poetry magazine Filo de Juego ["Edge of Game"] and the cultural section En Rojo ["In Red"], published in the weekly magazine Claridad ["Clarity"]. He is ...
Benét, Stephen Vincent
(1898-1943) US author and poet, active from before 1915, very briefly involved in World War One until his myopia was discovered; brother of William Rose Benét. He was initially most noted for his moderately copious Poetry, including an Arabian fantasy, The Drug-Shop; Or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (1917 chap). The earliest examples of poems with direct sf interest are probably ...
Burger, Neal R
(1931-2005) US author and scriptwriter who in collaboration with George E Simpson published three sf novels with a strong thriller/espionage flavour: Ghostboat (1976) featuring a kind of Timeslip; Thin Air (1978) involving Matter Transmission; and Fair Warning (1980), an Alternate History tale. For plot details ...
Naruto
Japanese animated tv series (2002-2007). Studio Pierrot. Directed by Hayato Date. Based on the manga by Masashi Kishimoto. Written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa, Junki Takegami, Akatsuki Yamatoya, and others. Music by Toshio Masuda. Voice actors include Junko Takeuchi, Noriaki Sugiyama, Chie Nakamura, Kazuhiko Inoue, Kujira, Nana Mizuki, Hōchū Ōtsuka, and Masako Katsuki. 220 24-minute episodes. Colour. / The story is set in a quasi-feudal world ...
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 ...