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Fisher, Samuel
(? - ) UK author whose first novel, Wivenhoe (2022), posits a 2022 uncannily similar to the real world, but arguably an Alternate History with no discernible Jonbar Point: snow begins to fall on the village of Wivenhoe and never stops, which may be a different kind of Climate Change, or Entropy. It seems the ...
Bilal, Enki
Working name of Yugoslavian-born Comics illustrator, film director and author Enes Bilalović (1951- ), in France from 1960; a very distinctive, innovative and original creator of sensuous, decadent futures. He attended the Académie des Beaux Arts briefly in the early 1970s. In 1971 he won a competition to create an sf Comic-strip story run by the magazine Pilote, in which he subsequently published ...
Gachiakuta
Japanese animated tv series (2025-current). Bones Film. Based on the Manga by Kei Urana. Directed by Fumihiko Suganuma. Written by Hiroshi Seko. Voice cast includes Aoi Ichikawa, Kana Hanazawa, Katsuyuki Konishi, Toshiyuki Morikawa and Shunsuke Takeuchi. Twenty-four 24 minute episodes to date. Colour. / A wall divides the wealthy from the poor, with the white-clad former living in a beautiful City, the ...
Fairman, Henry Clay
(1848-1899) US lawyer, editor and author whose Lost World novel, The Third World: A Tale of Love and Strange Adventure (21 April-October [or later] 1894 The Sunny South; 1895) oddly (though crudely) prefigures Dan Simmons's The Terror (2007) in depicting the rescue by an Eskimo of the last survivor of the John Franklin expedition (circa 1850), who then finds a 150 mile passage into a ...
McCullough, Colleen
(1937-2015) Working name of Australian author Colleen McCullough-Robinson, who remains most famous for The Thorn Birds (1977). In A Creed for the Third Millennium (1985), set in a Near Future America ravaged by Climate Change, a charismatic figure (see Messiahs) ambiguously revitalizes a disillusioned world. The Ladies of Missalonghi (1987) is 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 ...