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Dollo, Xavier
(1976- ) French critic and author, perhaps better known his sf written as Thomas Geha, none of which has been translated (and not here listed). His nonfiction Histoire de la Science Fiction en bande dessinée (graph 2020; trans Mark Bence as The History of Science Fiction: A Graphic Novel Adventure 2021) with Djibril Morissette-Phan is as stated a history of science fiction (see ...
Birth
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1984; vt Planet Busters; vt The World of the Talisman). Original title Bāsu. Idol, Kaname Production. Directed by Shinya Sadamitsu. Written by Junki Takegami. Voice cast includes Ichirō Nagai, Kaneto Shiozawa, Keiko Toda, Miina Tominaga and Kazuki Yao. 80 minutes. Colour. / With a galactic War ongoing between the Organics and Inorganics, space merchant Bao Luzen ...
Horseman, Elaine
(1924-1999) UK author of the Hubble sequence of novels for children; they are predominantly fantasy, though The Hubbles and The Robot (1968) plays lightly with Robots and with other sf subjects. [JC]
Steele, Linda
(1953- ) US author (not the Linda Steele married to Michael Moorcock) whose Ibis: Witch Queen of the Hive World (1985) examines human sexual politics (see Feminism; Gender) through the perspective of an affair between a human male and a female of an Alien hive-like species (see Hive Minds). [JC]
Barrowcliffe, Mark
(1964- ) UK author who also writes as by Mark Alder and as by M D Lachlan. His early novels, beginning with Girlfriend 44 (2000) and all under his own name, are nonfantastic, though The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing up Strange (2007) is an amusing memoir, focusing on his adolescent obsession with the Role Playing Game Dungeons & Dragons. / Most of Barrowcliffe's pseudonymous ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...