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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Lu, Marie
Pseudonym of Chinese-born author Xiwei Lu (1984- ), in US from early childhood. She remains best known for her first series, the Young Adult Legend sequence beginning with Legend (2011), set in a moderately distant Near Future balkanized Dystopian America with a geographical focus on Los Angeles (see California). Three loci of ...
Justy
Japanese OVA (1985; vt Cosmo Police Justy). Studio Pierrot. Based on the Manga by Tsuguo Okazaki. Directed by Motosuke Takahashi. Written by Hiroyuki Hoshiyama. Voice cast includes Kazuhiko Inoue, Miina Tominaga and Keiko Yokozawa. 44 minutes. Colour. / Young Justy Kaizard (Inoue) is an Esper working for the Galaxy Control System's Cosmo Police (see ...
Morgan, Dave
Working name of David O W Morgan (1951- ), UK author of three novels for Robert Hale Limited, Reiver (1975), in which Mercenary Guilds provide an outlet for youthful aggression and thus maintain world peace; Genetic Two (1976), with a struggle for survival on a far planet; and Adverse Camber (1977). Each is an unremarkable but efficient sf adventure. [JC]
Pamela, Lucia
(1904-2002) US singer and bandleader. Her only album, Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela (1969), on which she played all instruments (including piano, clarinet, drums and theremin), mostly in an old-fashioned swing style, was purportedly recorded on the Moon. The album begins with Pamela offering readers to take a trip to the Moon, where we meet Moon people and animals, and is bookended with "spacey" electronic sounds. Disappointingly, the songs in ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book ...