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Starburst
UK monthly nonfiction Media Magazine about sf, fantasy and horror, primarily in Cinema and Television. Small-Bedsheet slick format. Founded January 1978, first published by Starburst Magazines, London, edited by Dez Skinn, but soon taken over by Marvel Comics and edited Alan Mackenzie until #77 (January 1985), then by Roger P Birchall to ...
Extant
US tv series (2014-2015). Tristar Television and Sony International Television for CBS. Created by Mickey Fisher. Executive producers included Halle Berry, Mickey Fisher, Steven Spielberg and Greg Walker. Directors include Adam Arkin, Kevin Dowling, Adam Kane, Dan Lerner and Christine Moore. Writers include Leslie Bohem, Eliza Clark, Mickey Fisher and Gavin Johannsen. Cast includes Halle Berry, Pierce Gagnon, Grace Gummer, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, ...
Wray, A Lunar
Pseudonym of US Unitarian minister and author Minot Judson Savage (1841-1918), whose At the Back of the Moon; Or, Observations of Lunar Phases (1879), a spoofish verse Satire in which a group of touring Lunarians, after conveying to the narrator of the tale their sense of life on the Evolution of life on Earth, return to the back side of the Moon, where they inhabit a topsy-turvy world which the ...
Lukodianov, Isai
(1913-1984) Russian design engineer who wrote sf in collaboration with his first cousin Evgeny Voiskunsky (whom see for discussion of their work). [DRL]
Wondrous Web Worlds
US Anthology series published annually from 2001 to the present and edited by J Alan Erwine. The first two volumes were published by Pro Mart Publishing, Carmichael, California, but all subsequent volumes have been published by Sam's Dot Publishing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The anthology selects the stories and poems voted by readers as the best in Sam's Dot's Online Magazines: The ...
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 ...