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Time Police
There are many fictional sf organizations whose brief is to regulate Time Travel and attempt to nullify dangerous Time Paradoxes or rewritings of history through Changewar. Inevitably the time police also work to guard their own existence. An early story in Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series, "Delenda Est" (December 1955 F&SF), ...
Furuhashi Hideyuki
(1971- ) Japanese author, who graduated in Sociology from Hōsei University, Tokyo, and worked briefly as a graphic assistant at the Games company Capcom on the first iteration of Resident Evil. His debut novel, Black Rod (1996 2vols) depicts a Dystopian society in which human emotions are subject to government control in the interests of ...
Prototype
Videogame (2009). Radical Entertainment (RE). Designed by Eric Holmes, Dennis Detwiller. Platforms: PS3, Win, XB360. / In Prototype, the hero is a Monster. In present-day Manhattan, an unknown virus is radically mutating the population, turning them into grotesque Zombie-like killers. The player's character, Alex Mercer, is a Superpowered amnesiac, a ...
Gold, Jerome
(1943- ) US anthropologist, publisher of Black Heron Press, and author, whose two Alternate History thrillers in the Inquisitor series, The Inquisitor (1991) and The Prisoner's Son: Homage to Anthony Burgess (1996), posit a hardscrabble Near Future destiny for the Pacific Rim states, which have been sold to Mexico. [JC]
Pinchin, Frank J
(1925-1990) UK research chemist and author. His first four sf novels, all as by Peter Dagmar, were not exceptional: Alien Skies (1962), Spykos 4: Strange Life-Forms on Unexplored Planets (1962; vt Spaceways 1973), Sands of Time (1963) – a fairly complex Time-Travel tale in which visitors from the future attempt to destroy a post-World War Three super- ...
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 ...