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Longyear, Barry B
(1942-2025) US author and editor who ran a printing company with his wife before beginning to write in 1977, beginning to publish work of genre interest with "The Tryouts" in Asimov's for November/December 1978. Before his 1981 hospitalization for alcoholism and addiction to prescription drugs – an experience which formed the basis of his non-sf novel Saint Mary Blue (1988) – he had already published prolifically, sometimes as by Frederick ...
Bukowski, Helene
(1993- ) German filmmaker and author whose first novel, the Young Adult Milchzähne (2019; trans Jen Calleja as Milk Teeth 2021), sets its soon-to-come-of-age protagonist at the heart of a sequestered Zone, protected temporarily from the ramifications of Near Future Climate Change. She ...
Tékumel
Role Playing Game setting. Designed by M A R Barker. / Tékumel is a richly realized future milieu, depicted in a Science Fantasy mode analogous to that employed by Marion Zimmer Bradley for her world of Darkover. The setting is arguably comparable with J R R Tolkien's Secondary World of ...
Duncan, Alexandra
(? - ) US author, resident in North Carolina, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Kinderkochen" in Ravens in the Library: Magic in the Bard's Name (anth 2009) edited by Sandra Buskirk and Phil (as SatyrPhil) Brucato. Her Young Adult Salvage Universe sequence opens with Salvage (2014), an adventure beginning in a Far-Future ...
Danger and Eggs
US animated online series (2015-2017). Amazon Studios, PUNY, Saerom Animation. Created by Mike Owens and Shadi Petosky. Directors include Sarah Seember Huisken, Mike Owens and Drew Schmidt. Writers include Sofiya Alexandra, Alex Fox, Eric Knobel, Rachel Lewis, Bob Mittenthal and Shadi Petosky. Voice cast includes Aidy Bryant and Eric Knobel. Thirteen 24-minute episodes, each with two segments, save for the finale. Colour. / The young daughter of a stunt rider, D D Danger (Bryant) ...
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 ...