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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Quaglia, Roberto
(1962- ) Italian author whose first works of genre interest were published in Romanian translation, beginning with Vagabondul interspatial (trans Cornel Nicolau from 1985 manuscript 1994; as Paradoxine: The Adventures of James Vagabond 2009); GOD Ltd (trans Peter de Ville from 1985 manuscript 1992 chap) is a Satire set in Western America about a deity who seems half ...
Fox Publications
US Comics publisher founded as Fox Feature Syndicate by Victor S Fox and business associate Bob Farrell in New York in the late 1930s; also known as Fox Comics and Bruns Publications Inc. Fox Feature Syndicate eventually filed for US Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July 1950. / Fox Publications comics titles with full entries in this encyclopedia are: All Good Comics (1944; 1946); All Top Comics ...
Richmond, Charles
(? - ) UK author whose sf play, A Step into Infinity (1946 chap), set half-a millennium hence, depicts the end of a vast Future War on Earth, and more cheering events on the planet Xeres. [JC]
Thorpe, David
(1954- ) UK author of a Young Adult Near Future sf novel, Hybrids (2007), set in a world afflicted by a virus that causes young humans to acquire a Cyborg-like affinity with high-tech devices, and ultimately to "become" those devices. The response of the world's governments is Dystopian. Stormteller (2014) ...
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 ...