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Patrouch, Joseph F, Jr
(1935- ) US author and critic who has written some short sf but first began to publish work of genre interest with two booklets on the sf of Isaac Asimov: Isaac Asimov's I, Robot: A Study Guide (1972 chap) and The Short Fiction of Isaac Asimov: A Study Guide (1972 chap). These were presumably spinoffs from his more substantial work The Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1974), completed in graduate ...
Williams, Richard
(1978- ) UK author associated exclusively with the writing of Ties for the Warhammer universe from around 2000, those of sf interest, in the Warhammer 40,000 subseries, beginning with Warhammer 40,000: Relentless (2008). Liber Chaotica Complete (2005) with Marijan von Staufer is "nonfiction". Williams should not be confused with the bibliographer and bookseller Richard Williams. ...
Moore, Ronald D
(1964- ) US screenwriter and Television producer who attended Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and whose first work of genre interest was the script for "The Bonding" (23 October 1989), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994). He became co-producer and – for the final year – producer of this series, writing or co-writing 27 episodes in all, ...
Monsters vs. Aliens
Film (2009). Paramount Pictures presents a DreamWorks Animation production. Directed by Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon. Written by Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Maya Forbes, Rob Letterman and Wallace Wolodarsky, inspired by the Abel Laxamana and Jim Stenstrum's Warren Publishing Comic Rex Havoc: Asskickers of the Fantastic (June 1978-February 1983 in 1984; vt Rex Havoc: Raiders of the Fantastic, ...
Younghusband, Francis
(1863-1942) UK soldier, explorer, journalist and author, now notorious (though praised at the time) for his almost certainly unauthorized invasion of Tibet in 1903-1904 (see Imperialism), in which it is estimated (perhaps exaggeratedly) that up to a thousand Tibetan monks were killed for each British soldier who died; too old for active combat in World War One, he helped form a ginger group advocating its ruthless continuation. ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...