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Hildebrandt, The Brothers
Working name for the team of American artists Gregory J Hildebrandt (1939-2024) and Timothy Mark Allen Hildebrandt (1939-2006), identical twin brothers, although they also worked separately using the working names Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt. They will forever be regarded primarily as the definitive illustrators of J R R Tolkien because of the famous Tolkien calendars that featured their paintings of his characters; oddly enough, except for one 1975 ...
Jameson, Malcolm
(1891-1945) US author who began producing fiction only after cancer forced him to retire from a nonwriting life which had included a career in the US Navy. He began publishing sf with "Eviction by Isotherm" for Astounding in August 1938, and wrote prolifically, at least seventy stories appearing before his death; he published some work under pseudonyms including Colin Keith and Mary MacGregor. "Doubled and Redoubled" (February 1941 Unknown), ...
Yano Tetsu
Pseudonym of Osamu Sakata (1923-2004), an author and translator instrumental in the dissemination of Anglophone sf in Japan. Graduating in Law from Chuō University in 1943, he was drafted into the Japanese armed forces. In post-war Japan, he famously scavenged the trash dumps of US Occupation bases, discovering in the process a lifelong love of the garish sf Magazines he found there. / In 1953 he was the first Japanese fan to make ...
Something Else
UK Semiprozine, three issues (Spring 1980, Winter 1980, Spring 1984), A4 format, published and edited by Charles Partington from Manchester. Print run was between 1000 and 1500 copies. This was a short-lived but brave attempt by Partington, who had previously edited Alien Worlds, to continue the New Worlds tradition. Many of the stalwarts of ...
Mōretsu Pirates
["Mōretsu Pirates", with "Pirates" as the sanctioned pronunciation for characters that would otherwise be pronounced Uchū Kaizoku, literally "Vehement Space Pirates"]. Japanese animated tv series (2012; released in English as Bodacious Space Pirates). Satelight, Tokyo MX. Cast includes Kana Hanazawa, Mikako Komatsu and Masaya Matsukaze. Directed by Tatsuo Sato. Written by Tatsuo Sato, Michiko Ito, Shinichi Miyazaki, Kentaro Mizuno. 26 25-minute episodes. Colour. / In ...
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 ...