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Lymington, John
Pseudonym of UK author John Newton Chance (1911-1983), prolific author from 1935 under his own name, most of this output being detective-thrillers; as John Drummond he wrote numerous Sexton Blake (see Sexton Blake Library) tales between 1944 and 1955, and as Desmond Reid (a House Name) his only sf contribution to that series, Anger at World's End (1963). His first ...
Cybernetics Guardian
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1989; original title Seijūki Saigādo). AIC. Directed by Koichi Ohata. Written by Riku Sanjo. Voice cast includes Takeshi Kusao, Hirotaka Suzuoki and Hiromi Tsuru. 43 minutes. Colour. / In 2019 Adler (Suzuoki) fondly regards the City of Cyber-Wood: "a forest of steel, a gigantic concrete life form with Technology its blood"; laments that it suffers from a "malignancy", ...
Baker, Eric T
(? - ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Uncertainty and the Dread Word Love" in Amazing for October 1993, and whose sf novel, Checkmate (1998), sets a paranoid thriller plot in a Space Opera frame, as a youthful agent aboard a colony ship finds he's being framed by his colleague Cyborgs. [JC]
Goldsmith, Martin M
(1913-1994) US screenwriter and author in whose Shadows at Noon (1943), a Near Future sf novel set in World War Two, Manhattan (see New York) is bombed by Nazi bombers. Goldsmith wrote two episodes of The Twilight Zone in 1964. [JC]
McConnell, Frank
(1942-1999) US academic and critic, a professor of English at Northwestern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, who wrote extensively on sf and many other subjects; his writings included a regular media column for Commonweal magazine and four detective novels, and he served four times on the committee that awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His work in the genre included editing The Time Machine/The War of the Worlds: A Critical Edition (omni ...
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 ...