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Hawes, James
(1960- ) UK screenwriter and author whose first novel, the slapdash Satire A White Merc With Fins (1996), stirs a pot of story adjacent to Fantastika but subsides agitatedly. Dead Long Enough (2000) dramatizes death-panic, an abstraction that seems to take literal shape. Hawes of some sf interest for Speak for England (2005), whose protagonist, last survivor of a ...
Trail of Cthulhu
Role Playing Game (2008). Pelgrane Press. Designed by Kenneth Hite, Robin D Laws. / As the Role Playing Game Call of Cthulhu, based on the Cthulhu Mythos, was named after H P Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu" (February 1928 ...
Williams, Michael Lindsay
(1940- ) US author who published the two volume Mars sequence comprising Martian Spring (1986) and FTL: Further Than Life (1987), which tackles conflicts between Earth and Mars, and consequent attempts to transcend these ills by gaining rapport with a transplanetary group mind; verve and clarity are lacking. / Williams should not be confused with the Michael Williams involved in various DragonLance ...
Pulley, Natasha
(1988- ) UK teacher and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Watchmaker of Filigree Street" in Alt Hist for June 2011 as by N K Pulley, a tale she expanded into the first volume of her Steampunk Watchmaker of Filigree Street Universe series. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015) is set in an Alternate History version of ...
Weird Terror
US Comic (1952-1954). 13 issues. Allen Hardy Associates. Artists include Don Heck, Pete Morisi and Rudy Palais. Script writers include Burr Dett and Ellen Ludwell. 36 pages. Four strips per issue, plus one or two short text stories or non-fiction pieces (one is a glossary of such terms as Cockatrice, Demonology and Sadism). There were several reprints: #12 and #13's strips consisted entirely of these, whilst other issues even reused strips from earlier issues of the ...
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 ...