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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Technofantasy
Item of Terminology introduced in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy to denote narratives whose essentially Fantasy nature is more or less disguised by trappings of Technology, though usually with no serious attempt to add scientific or pseudoscientific justification. Even Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's sf ...
Newman, Sandra
(1965- ) US author whose later fiction is of sf interest, though her earlier work edges deftly out of mimetic constraints, an instance being her first novel, The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done (2002), whose hallucinatedly fragmented narrative renders a dislocated America almost graphically enough to register as an exercise in Fantastika. Her third novel, The Country of Ice Cream Star (2014), is set in a ...
Donnell, A J
(1905-1991) US jazz drummer, advertising manager and illustrator who served in the US Army during World War Two. There are reports that he did some uncredited interior illustrations for Startling Stories during the late 1930s and 1940s, but this may be at least partially a misreading of artwork contributions by his wife Dolly Donnell (whom see) signing herself D/Donnell. Donnell himself is ...
Hazbin Hotel
US animated webseries (2019; 2024-current). Spindle House, Bento Box Entertainment. Created and directed by Vivienne Medrano. Writers include David Capdevielle, Raymond Hernandez, Ariel Ladensohn, Vivienne Medrano and Adam Stein. Voice cast includes Christian Borle, Edward Bosco, Alex Brightman, Gabriel C Brown, Kevin Del Aguila, Monica Franco, Jill Harris, Elsie Lovelock, Michael Kovach, Mike Lauer, Michelle Marie, Will Stamper and Jessica Vosk. Seventeen episodes of 24-32 ...
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 ...