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Holmes and Yo-Yo
US tv series (1976). Heyday Parody, Universal Television Studios, ABC Television Network. Created by Lee Hewitt and Jack Sher. Produced by Arne Sultan. Directors included Jack Arnold and Noam Pitlk; starring John Shuck, Richard B Shull, Bruce Kirby, Andrea Howard. Written by Sultan, John Landis and Richard Freiman. Thirteen 25-minute episodes. Colour. / Detective Alexander Holmes (Shull) has the unfortunate habit of always having his partners either ...
Stallman, Robert
(1930-1980) Literary critic, professor of English at Western Michigan University, and author of the Book of the Beast trilogy, the last two books of which were published posthumously: The Orphan (1980), The Captive (1981) and The Beast (1982; vt The Book of the Beast 1982). The books are complex, sensitively written Fabulations, fitting between the generic borders of sf and ...
Sakai, Stan
(1953- ) US Comic-strip artist and writer, born in Kyoto, Japan, raised in Hawaii, and now based in Pasadena, California, known for keeping the anthropomorphic funny-animal tradition alive in the twenty-first Century by telling tales of a wandering, masterless samurai rabbit in seventeenth-century Japan. That series, Usagi Yojimbo, has the distinction of being the longest-running comic-book series by a single writer/artist, with no ...
Papadopoulos, George
(1928- ) Greek author, of whom nothing is known beyond his publication of two sf novels, The Last Dynasty of the Angels (1998) and Breaking the Barriers of Time (1999), each translated by Charles Moore from unidentified originals. [JC]
Ives, Cora Semmes
(1834-1916) US amateur theatrical producer and author, whose The Princess of the Moon: a Confederate Fairy Story (1869 chap; exp vt as coll The Princess of the Moon: A Fairy Story and Some Nursery Rhymes 1897) as by A Lady of Warrenton, Va, combines fantasy and sf devices, in a manner lacking a consciously Equipoisal strategy. A wounded Confederate officer, whose land has been ruined by vicious Yankees after the end of the Civil War, is ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...