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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the circumambient galactic Deep, in which very few stars ...
Egal, Rose
(? - ) UK biochemist and author whose Young Adult tale The Sevenfold Hunters (2022) pits a close-knit cohort of teenagers with Superpowers against Vampiric Aliens who have carried out an Invasion of Earth [for Seven Samurai see The ...
Swain, John D
(? -? ) Prolific US Pulp author active 1901-1939, chiefly with short crime/thriller tales; he began to publish work of genre interest with "L'Enfant Terrible" in The Cavalier for 4 May 1912. His "The Last Man on Earth" (November 1923 Munsey's Magazine) – in which the Last Man is the last adult male in a world of women ...
Stewart, Michael [2]
UK author (1945- ), most of whose novels are medical thrillers, although Monkey Shines (1983), filmed by George A Romero as Monkey Shines (1988), uses the sf premise that a monkey may have her intelligence successfully augmented through the injection of human genetic material (see Apes as Human); the experiment ends tragically. Other thrillers ...
Jentry Chau vs The Underworld
US animated online tv series (2024). Buji Productions, Lightbulb Farm Productions, Netflix Animation, Titmouse Inc and Trespassers Will Inc. Created by Echo Wu. Directors include Jackie Cole, Alexandria Kwan, Natalie Wetzig and Mari Yang. Writers include Jade Chang, Peter Chen, Brittany Jo Flores and Echo Wu. Voice cast includes A J Beckles, Kenton Chen, Lori Tan Chinn, Greg Chun, Woosung Kim, Eleanor Lin, Lucy Liu, Cristina Milizia, Ali Wong, Bowen Yang and Jimmy O Yang. Thirteen ...
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 ...