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Maloney, Terry
(1917-2008) UK illustrator, author, editor and amateur astronomer who saw action in the Spanish Civil War (British Battalion) and World War Two (Royal Corps of Signals). Early professional work included designing London Underground posters in 1946 and joining Frank Hampson's studio in 1950, during which brief association he worked on Dan Dare – Pilot of the Future for the Eagle ...
Bonanno, Margaret Wander
(1950-2021) US author whose first books were the mainstream feminist novels A Certain Slant of Light (1979), Ember Days (1980) and Callbacks (1981); a later title, Risks (1989), is also nonfantastic. She made her mark on sf with a highly successful Star Trek tie, Dwellers in the Crucible (1985). Two others were soon published: Star Trek: Strangers from the Sky (1987); and ...
Toudouze, Georges-Gustave
Working name of French journalist, playwright and author Henry Georges Edouard Toudouze (1877-1972), many of his novels being for children. Some of these contain at least some fantastic interest, including Le Petit Roi d'Ys ["The Little King of Ys"] (25 January-28 June 1913; 1914; trans Michael West as King of the Undersea City 1938 chap), whose archaeologist protagonist discovers an ancient kingdom Under the Sea (see ...
Pavić, Milorad
(1929-2009) Serbian translator, academic, poet and author, active from the 1960s; he remains most famous – and clearly of greatest sf interest – for his first full-length novel, Hazarski rečnik: Roman-leksikon u 100,000 reči (1984 2vols; trans Christina Pribićević-Zorić as Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words 1988 2vols), a text comprised of various narrative entries concerning the lost land of Khazar (see ...
Night of the Carrots, The
Estonian animated film (1998; original title Porgandite öö). Eesti Joonisfilm. Directed and written by Priit Pärn. Narration by Frank Boyle. 29 minutes. Colour. / Diego, lover of the round, hater of the angular, arrives at PGI hoping to book a room. A sprawling, architecturally unappealing structure, PGI is a hotel (perhaps also a sanatorium) and, as the queues outside attest, much in demand: getting a ...
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 ...