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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 ...
Lensman [series]
Influential Space Opera series created by E E Smith (whom see for full discussion). Other authors of stories set in the Lensman universe are William Ellern, Hideyuki Furuhashi and David Kyle, the last focusing on the three Alien allies of the main series hero Kim Kinnison who like him ...
Glass, Matthew
Pseudonym of Australian-born doctor and author (1954- ), in medical practice in the UK for several years, whose first novel, Ultimatum (2009), is set mostly in a Near Future America where, by 2032, Climate Change has begun radically to affect coastal areas, with an estimated 25,000,000 citizens forced to retreat from the rising seas. These dire circumstances are soon submerged in ...
Findlay, D K
(1901-1990) Canadian author, of sf interest for the very Near-Future King Winter (1978), in which an unprecedentedly fierce blizzard begins to change the world (see Climate Change). [JC]
Tek War
Canadian/US tv miniseries (1994). Atlantis Films/Universal. Executive producers William Shatner and Peter Sussman; line producer John Calvert; supervising producer Seaton McLean, based on the Tek novels by Shatner. First episode written by Alfonse Ruggiero Jr and Westbrook Claridge, directed by Shatner. Cast includes Eugene Clark, Sheena Easton, Greg Evigan, Torri Higginson, Barry Morse, Shatner and Sonja Smits. Four 88-minute episodes. / ...
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 ...