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Scrymsour, Ella M
Working name of UK actress, playwright and author Ella Mary Scrymsour-Nichol (1888-1962), daughter-in-law of C A Scrymsour Nichol. Her first novel, The Perfect World: A Romance of Strange People and Strange Places (fixup 1922), a confabulation complicatedly akin to the Scientific Romance, is thought by E F Bleiler almost certainly to consist of two separate ...
Inside Job
US animated tv series (2021-current). Taco Gucci, Jam Filled Entertainment, Netflix Animation. Created by Shion Takeuchi. Directors include Pete Michels, David Ochs and Vitaly Strokous. Writers include Chase Mitchell, Burke Scurfield and Shion Takeuchi. Voice cast includes Tisha Campbell, Lizzy Caplan, Chris Diamantopoulos, Clark Duke, Brett Gelman, Bobby Lee, John DiMaggio and Christian Slater. Eighteen episodes of around 30 minutes. Colour. / Most conspiracy theories are true (see ...
Laurence, John
Working name of UK mathematician and author John Laurence Pritchard (1885-1968), in active service during World War One, who published some nonfiction books on aeronautics under his full name, and several detective novels as John Laurence. Of these, Murder in the Stratosphere (1938) is of some sf interest in that the aeroplane technology involved requires the use of Inventions not then made. He edited the journal of ...
Lindner, Robert
(1914-1956) US lay psychoanalyst and prison psychologist who reported on his work in the latter capacity in Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath (1944), filmed in 1955. He is of sf interest for "The Jet-Propelled Couch: The Story of Kirk" (December 1954-January 1955 Harper's Magazine), a long narrative essay – later included in The Fifty-Minute Hour: A Collection of True Psychoanalytic Tales (coll 1955; vt ...
Schoenherr, John
(1935-2010) US illustrator, today best known for his animal illustration, who was regarded by some critics as the finest sf artist of his generation. Born in New York City, Schoenherr studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Pratt Institute. He made his sf-Illustration debut in Amazing in 1956. His genre work appeared primarily in Astounding/Analog (including 75 ...
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 ...