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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Armstrong, Luanne
(1949- ) Canadian teacher, poet and author, active from the mid-1990s in various genres, including stories for younger children; her studies of rural life in British Columbia (not listed below) are strongly felt. The Bone House (2002), her first tale of sf interest, is set in a Near Future British Columbia devastated first by Climate Change and second by corporate ...
Antczak, Stephen L
(1966- ) US author, former punk rock singer and Comics creator who attended the University of Florida in Gainsville and began to publish work of genre interest with "Shit Happens" in the Fanzine The Scanner #5 (1989) as Steve Antczak. His first novel God Drug (2004) has a back-story in which the US Marines test the titular Drug, a weapons-grade form of LSD, in hope of ...
Pouns, Brauna E
The pseudonym of a group of US authors who wrote Amerika: The Triumph of the American Spirit (1987), a Tie to the Television series Amerika (1987), in which the USSR – ten years after crippling her Communications networks and mounting a successful Invasion of America – dominates a balkanized continent. The story ends in Heartland, the ...
Dragon's Heaven
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1988). Anime International Company (AIC), Artmic. Based on the Manga by Makoto Kobayashi. Directed by Makoto Kobayashi. Written by Ikuyo Koukami. Voice cast includes Iemasa Kayumi, Yuko Minaguchi and Kei Tomiyama. 43 minutes. Colour. / A War that began in 3195 between mankind and the Robot rebels finally ends with a big win for humanity. The victorious forces return ...
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 ...