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Hines, Jim C
(1974- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Blade of the Bunny" in L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future: Volume XV (anth 1999) edited by Algis Budrys. Most of his work has been fantasy, mostly in such series as the humorous Jig the Goblin sequence beginning with Goblinquest (2004) [see Checklist below]. / In the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse sequence ...
Bullbuster
Japanese animated online tv series (2023). NUT. Directed and written by Hiroyasu Aoki. Voice cast includes Shōya Chiba, Taiten Kusunoki, Shin-ichiro Miki, Asami Seto, Yūki Takada and Ken Uo. Twelve 24 minute episodes. Colour. / Ryugan Island's inhabitants had left following Monster attacks and the presence of toxic gas. Namidome Industries, a subsidiary of Shiota Chemical, had been building a desalination plant on the ...
Coles, Bennett R
(? - ) Canadian military officer, entrepreneur and author whose War sequence of Space Opera adventures beginning with Virtues of War (2015) puts a young un-battle-tested woman in command of some hardened troops in an expanding conflict. The arena is galaxy-wide. Terra is threatened but expansionist. [JC]
Trevor, Ralph
Pseudonym of UK author James Reginald Wilmot (1897-1944), active for nine years as a crime novelist before his early death; he also wrote as by Frances Stuart. He is of minor sf interest for The Ghost Counts Ten (1938), a thriller featuring a heat-melting Ray. [JC]
Wang Dulu
Writing name of Wang Baoxiang (1909-1977), a Chinese author, largely of detective stories and mysteries, whose most productive period in the late 1930s and 1940s saw some of the definitive works of martial-arts fiction (see Wuxia). He was born to Manchu parents in Beijing, shortly before the abdication of the last emperor would see the suspension of the hereditary stipend paid to aristocrats. As a result, his family and many like it fell ...
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 ...