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Sullivan, M J
(? - ) UK teacher and author, who is of sf interest for his first novel, the Young Adult Game Over: Rise of the Raid Mob (2022), whose four protagonists are enticed to enter a Virtual Reality world governed by a mysterious Videogame, at the heart of which an Alien intelligence lurks observing Homo sapiens. / ...
Q.E.D.
US/UK tv series (1982; vt Mastermind UK). CBS Television Productions for CBS-TV (US), Channel 4 (UK). Created by John Hawkesworth. Produced by Christopher Neame. Directors included Roy Ward Baker, Henry Herbert, and Don Sharp. Writers included William Froug, David Karp and Robert Schlitt. Cast includes Julian Glover, George Innes, Jenny Martin and Sam Waterson. Six 60-minute episodes. Colour. / In 1912 London, ...
Burgess, Scott Alan
(1964- ) US fan and critic who has contributed two Bibliographies to the Borgo Press Bibliographies of Modern Authors series: of Reginald Bretnor in The Work of Reginald Bretnor: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide (1989) and of Dean Ing in The Work of Dean Ing: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide (1990 ...
Xenoblade Chronicles
Videogame (2011; vt Xenoblade in Japan). Monolith Soft. Designed by Tetsuya Takahashi, Koh Kojima. Platforms: Wii. / Xenoblade Chronicles is a Console Role Playing Game (see Computer Role Playing Games), much influenced by the Final Fantasy series and (especially) by one of its designer's previous works, Xenogears (1998). ...
Rand, Peter
(1942- ) US author of The Time of the Emergency (1977), an sf novel set in a world subsequent to a nuclear Holocaust – but how much farther into the future it is hard to distinguish – so that the abstract desert and surreal hotel that provide a stage for the four protagonists' shattered behaviour may in fact be described as inhabiting a Ruined Earth. [JC]
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 ...