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Casewit, Curtis W
(1922-2002) German-born author, in US from 1948; linguistically fluent, he did military service with the French Army in World War Two, later serving as an interpreter for the British Army. Almost all of his work was nonfiction, much of it about skiing; he began publishing work of genre interest with an sf story, "The Mask", in Weird Tales for March 1952. His sf novel, The Peacemakers (1960), depicts conflicting societies in a virtually depopulated ...
Stone, Rodney
(1932- ) UK author, mostly of nonfantastic thrillers under his own name and as by Matthew Hunter. Of sf interest is The Cambridgeshire Disaster (1967) as by Hunter, featuring the Near Future destruction of that academic enclave; Cries in the Night (1991), in which the contemporary abduction of two children uncannily evokes events from World War Two, does not in fact trespass ...
Muirden, James
(1942- ) UK author, most of whose works are nonfiction popularizing Astronomy; he also published the two-volume Eric Kendall series of Young Adult sf tales comprising Space Intruder (1965) and The Moon-Winners (1965). Young Eric, after halting a rogue planet from striking Earth in the first volume, again must fight the obduracy of the British defense establishment in the ...
Monkey Punch
(1937-2019) Working name of Kazuhiko Katō, a Japanese Manga artist, largely remembered for a crime caper series (see Crime and Punishment) with frequent crossovers into Equipoise and the Technothriller. His first few strips were published as by Kazuhiko Katō, a pseudonym written with different characters, but pronounced the same ...
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1992-1993; original title Bannō Bunka Nekomusume). Animate Film. Directed by Yoshio Ishiwata. Written by Yuzo Takada, based on the Manga by Yuzo Takada. Voice cast includes Megumi Hayashibara, Akiko Hiramatsu, Aya Hisakawa, Kazue Ikura, Akira Kamiya, Mika Kanai and Saeko Shimaz. Six 28-minute episodes. Colour. / One Christmas, on discovering the ...
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 ...