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Gregg Press
US publisher of reprints in hardcover, a subsidiary of G K Hall & Co. The Gregg Press Science Fiction Reprint Series, edited by David G Hartwell with Lloyd W Currey as associate editor, included a variety of novels and collections dating from the eighteenth century until recent times. Among them were several new volumes, including Alyx (coll 1976; vt The Adventures of Alyx 1985) by Joanna ...
Six Million Dollar Man, The
US tv series (1973-1978). A Silverton and Universal Production for ABC. Executive producers Glen A Larson, Harve Bennett, Allan Balter. Produced by Michael Gleason, Lionel E Siegel, Joe L Cramer, Fred Freiberger. Based on the novel Cyborg (1972) by Martin Caidin. The series began as a 90-minute ABC "Wednesday Movie of the Week" in 1973; ...
Stauffer, Mack
(1857-1941) US author of a Near Future political drama, Humanity and the Mysterious Knight (1915), in which conflict between unions and a worldwide corporation are amicably settled through the example set by the wholesome couple who own the firm. [JC]
Glukhovsky, Dmitry
(1979- ) Russian journalist and author, best known for his Metro sequence beginning with Metro 2033 (2002 ebook; rev 2005; trans 2010), which was soon developed as a Videogame (for details see Metro 2033). The original tale begins in Near Future Russia, after the devastation caused by World War Three, and ...
Tizano, Rodrigo Márquez
(1984- ) Mexican academic and author who first came to notice with Caballos de fuerza ["Horsepower"] (coll of linked stories 2007), which is not literally fantastic; his first novel, Yakarta (2016; trans Thomas Bunstead as Jakarta 2019), uncannily emplaces a narrative, clearly derived from the SF Megatext, into an abstractly imagined world, very like but not fixable as actually Earth. In what seems ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...