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MacLeod, Ken
(1954- ) Scottish author who began publishing work of genre interest with The Star Fraction (1995). This was the first novel in the four-volume Fall Revolution sequence, which also included The Stone Canal (1996), The Cassini Division (1998), and The Sky Road (1999). Together, these books comprise one of the fullest and most thoughtful stagings of political (see Politics) debates ...
Kenward, James
(1908-1994) UK author, mostly of nonfiction studies and memoirs. Summervale: A Fantasy (1935) is a tale in which a man is transformed into a Dog. The framing narrative of The Story of the Poor Author: And Some of the Stories He Told (coll of linked stories 1959) is sf, involving Spaceships; the stories told are various. [JC]
Loudon, Jane Webb
(1800-1858) UK author of books on popular natural history and gardening, and of The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827 3vols; rev 1828), published anonymously, like Mary Shelley, and also when she was relatively young, though not in her teens. Her birth year is almost certainly 1800 (as given here from 2022) not 1807, the earlier date having been established through research by Nickianne Moody, Andy ...
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 ...
Out of This World
1. US tv series (1952). ABC TV. Produced by Milton Kaye. Narrated by Jackson Beck. One season of 25-minute episodes. Black and white. / Out of this World hovered between sf and lectures on science. In episode three, for example, directed by Milton Kaye and written by Robbie Robertson, we see a young couple in 1993 going to the Moon for a vacation and then telephoning their relations on Earth to give impressions of their holiday. Between these ...
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 ...