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Nesbo, Jo
(1960- ) Norwegian musician, professional footballer (long retired) and author, who does not normally spell Nesbø for publication with the diacritical. He is known primarily for his nonfantastic Harry Hole sequence of nonfantastic policiers beginning with Flaggermusmannen (1997; trans Don Bartlett as The Bat 2012); the series [not listed in Checklist below] has reached at least twelve volumes. Nesbo is ...
Williams, Missouri
(1992- ) UK editor, playwright and author, now in Prague, whose first novel The Doloriad (2022) focuses primarily on a family composed both of survivors of and those born with Mutations after a Near-Future series of planetary Disasters. Incest seems necessary, as they may be the only humans left. But the matriarchal head of the clan sends the protagonist, who was ...
Tit-Bits Science Fiction Comics
UK Comic (1953). C Arthur Pearson, Ltd. Six issues. Most artwork and scripts by Ron Turner. 2-3 stories per issue. Cover in colour, but strips in black and white. A seventh issue was completed but not published in the UK, but was later released in France as Aventures de Demain #21 (1957). / Issue #1 opens with "The Dome of Survival": back "in the finite depths of time" (see Time Abyss), Pluto's ...
Ferenczy, Árpád
(1877-circa 1930) Hungarian author of several works in Hungarian, before publishing in German (apparently translated from manuscript by Hans Otto Werda) his sf novel Timotheus Thümmel und seine Ameisen (1923; trans anon as The Ants of Timothy Thümmel 1924), a Satire featuring a race of Ants in central Africa whose Intelligence exceeds that of humans, and who engage ...
Lugosi, Bela
Working name of Hungarian-born Horror actor Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (1882-1956), in the US from 1920, who became a US citizen in 1931. He first achieved fame with his title role in the 1927 Broadway stage version of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), leading to his star part in the Universal Pictures Dracula (1931) directed by Tod Browning. In non- ...
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 ...