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Briggs, Andy
(1972- ) UK Television and Cinema scriptwriter and book author whose career began in television with work on the fantasy series Highlander: The Series (1991). He began doing scripts in his own right with Screaming Night (2002) directed by John Henry Richardson; later films include Rise of the Gargoyles (2009) directed by Bill Corcoran, Legendary (2013) ...
Oshii Mamoru
(1951- ) Japanese director, scriptwriter, animator and author. Joining Tatsunoko Productions in 1977 as an Anime storyboard artist, Oshii worked on such shows as Time Bokan (1975-1976; vt Timefighters; vt Timefighters in the Land of Fantasy; 61 episodes) about the search for a Scientist lost whilst testing his insect-shaped ...
Crest of the Stars
Japanese animated tv series (original title Seikai no Monshō). Produced by Sunrise; directed by Yasuchika Nagaoka; based on the Seikai ["Star World"] novels of Hiroyuki Morioka. Crest of the Stars (1999, 13 episodes) adapts Morioka's Crest (1996) trilogy. It was followed by Banner of the Stars I (2000, 13 episodes), Banner II (2001, 10 episodes), and ...
Daniel, Yuli
(1925-1988) Russian author who wrote as Nikolai Arzhak, under which name in the early 1960s he published his stories abroad, without permission. After he was found guilty in a 1966 show trial of "anti-Soviet activity" for the writings published in book form later that year as Ici Moscou (coll trans anon 1966; trans Stuart Hood, Harold Shukman and John Richardson as This Is Moscow Speaking, and Other Stories 1968), he and his friend and fellow dissident, Andrey ...
Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub
US Comic (1954-1955). Titan Publishing Co/American Comics Group. 7 issues. Artists include Ken Landau, Sheldon Moldoff and Ogden Whitney. Scriptwriters include Richard Hughes. 36 pages. Each issue was dominated by a 2 or 3 part Atomic Sub story, broken up by brief fiction and non-fiction pieces; from #3 there would also be a 5-7 page Atomic Sub story focusing on one of the Commandos, except for #7, which concerns one of 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 ...