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Gdleen
Japanese animated OVA (1990; vt Gadurin; vt Gadulin; vt Jikō Wakusei Gdleen). Ashi Productions Company. Based on the Light Novel by Yuto Ramon (illustrated by Hitoshi Yoneda). Directed by Takao Kato and Toyoo Ashida. Written by Michiru Shimada. Voice cast Eriko Hara, Ichirō Nagai, Keiichi Nanba and Kei Tomiyama. 45 minutes. Colour. / Ryu (Nanba) of the Akamaru Corporation's Planet Research Group ...
International Fantasy Award
UK-based Award, made annually from 1951 to 1955 and finally in 1957. The idea came from four UK enthusiasts: John Beynon Harris (John Wyndham), Frank Cooper, G Ken Chapman and Leslie Flood. The International Fantasy Awards were presented to the authors of the best fantasy or sf book of the year, with a second category for the best nonfiction book likely to be of interest to sf readers; the nonfiction ...
Keegan, Mel
Pseudonym of an unidentified author (? - ) resident in South Australia, whose fiction as Keegan has normally been written explicitly for gay markets; his sf includes the NARC sequence beginning with NARC 1: Death's Head (1991) and ending with NARC 5: Aphelion (2007), Space Operas featuring two gay paramilitaries in the Narcotics and Riot Control whose minds are ...
Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame
Career Award for life achievement in Comics, so named in honour of Will Eisner (1917-2005), creator of the comic The Spirit (1940-1952) and author of influential analyses of comic art and narrative; presented annually since 1988 (with 1990 skipped owing to administrative complications); since 1991 the presentations have taken place at the San Diego Comic-Con Convention. Also included below are the ...
Cheney, Frank J
(1851-1919) US businessman and author whose first book, A Life of Unity and Other Stories (coll 1901), contains some fantasies. He is of sf interest for Ten Thousand Years Hence or 19002 of the Christian Era (1909), whose contemporary protagonist, the richest man in the world, finds himself transported (perhaps by Time Machine) to an Island ten millennia hence. Its inhabitants of the ...
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 ...