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Dorsey, Candas Jane
(1952- ) Canadian author, arts journalist and social worker, author of three early volumes of poetry; married to Timothy J Anderson. Dorsey began publishing work of genre interest with "Columbus Hits the Shoreline Rag" (in Getting Here, anth 1977, ed Rudy Weibe); her terse, complex stories, assembled primarily in Machine Sex ... And Other Stories (coll 1988), Vanilla and Other Stories (2000) ...
Venture Bros, The
US animated tv series (2003-2020). Adult Swim/Cartoon Network. Created by Jackson Publick (Christopher McCulloch). Executive producers include Eric "Doc" Hammer and Jackson Publick. Writers: Ben Edlund, Hammer and Publick. Directors include Ki-Yong Bai, Publick and Jon Schnepp. Voice cast includes Doc Hammer, Christopher McCulloch, Jackson Publick, Michael Sinterniklaas, James Urbaniak, Patrick Warburton. 81 22-minute episodes, plus a pilot and four specials. Colour. / An ...
Cole, Myke
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Shouting Down the Moon" in The Book of Final Flesh (anth 2003) edited by James Lowder, which appeared more or less simultaneously with his first novel, Car Trouble (2003), a Tie to the Wildsidhe Chronicles Shared World fantasy sequence. He is of sf interest for the ...
Drury, David M
(1951- ) US electrical engineer, academic and author whose Jupiter Station sequence, comprising All the Gold of Ophir (2005) and Jupiter's Shadow (2007), is set on a satellite orbiting Jupiter from which suspect substances and other mysteries seem to originate, and follows the search of a private detective for the truth behind the actions of the Conglomerated Mining and Manufacturing Company. [JC]
Howes, Katelyn Monroe
(? - ) US documentary and Television producer, all of nonfantastic work, and author whose first novel, The Awoken (2022), re-invokes a question often found in the SF Megatext: why would anyone awoken from Suspended Animation be welcome in the new world? In this case, the protagonist has been re-activated into an estranging ...
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 ...