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Robinson, Charles Henry
(1843-1940) US author who served in that country's civil war and later as a member of the Iowa legislature. His novel Longhead: The Story of the First Fire (1913) capably runs the gamut of Prehistoric SF themes from the discovery of fire to the first hints of civilization (see Origin of Man). [JC]
Park, Ed
(1970- ) US editor, teacher, journalist and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Well-Moistened with Cheap Wine, the Sailor and the Wayfarer Sing of their Absent Sweethearts" in Trampoline (anth 2003) edited by Kelly Link; for the Los Angeles Times he wrote an sf column, Astral Weeks, between 2007 and 2011. The Satire of corporate office life in his first novel Personal Days (2008) is ...
Cato, Beth
(? - ) US author and poet who began to publish work of genre interest with "Brains for Breakfast" in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Presents Flush Fiction: 88 Short-Short Stories You Can Read in a Single Sitting (anth 2009) edited by the Editors of the Bathroom Readers' Institute. Her first series, the Clockwork Dagger sequence beginning with The Clockwork Dagger (2014), follows its young female protagonist through a ...
Magilumiere Co. Ltd.
Japanese animated tv series (2024; vt Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.; original title Kabushiki Gaisha Majirumie). Moe. J.C.Staff. Directed by Masahiro Hiraoka. Written by Shingo Nagai. Based on the Manga by Sekka Iwata and Yu Aoki. Voice cast include Fairouz Ai, Akira Ishida, Yumiri Hanamori, Hiyori Kono, Rikiya Koyama and Daiki Yamashita. Twelve 24 minute episodes. Colour. / Being a Magical Girl is "a respectable line ...
Rossi, Marcianus F
Italian born author (1870-1948), probably in US from 1889; he is probably the Marcian F Rossi whose dates are as below. The protagonists of his only sf work, A Trip to Mars (1920 chap), after discussions with Hugo Gernsback and Nikolai Tesla, travel by solar-powered Spaceship to an advanced Mars, in effect a Lost World ruled ...
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 ...