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Yolen, Jane
(1939-2026) US author, partially resident in Scotland, who began publishing poems and articles when still in college, and who first came to notice with books for children, the first of many being Pirates in Petticoats (1963). Of her circa 460 titles, many of which won awards in her field, most were for children (see listing below for some of these), many of them being picture books for younger children; most of her adult fiction, of which she wrote relatively little, was ...
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
Animated tv series (1976-1978). Filmation Associates for CBS-TV. Directed by Don Towsley. Writers included Len Janson, Paul Dini, Kathleen Barnes, Tom Ruegger, David Wise. Cast includes Jack Bannon, Joan Gerber, Hettie Lynn Hares, Alan Oppenheimer and Robert Ridgley. Based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Sixteen 30-minute episodes. Colour. / In this series, Tarzan (Ridgley) encounters various ...
Time of Eve
Japanese Original Net Animated series (2008-2009; original title Ivu no Jikan), subsequently released as the animated film Time of Eve: The Movie (2010; original title Ivu no Jikan Gekijoban). Studio Rikka. Directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura. Written by Yasuhiro Yoshiura. Voice cast includes Jun Fukuyama, Kenji Nojima, Mitsuki Saiga, Rina Sato, Tomokazu Sugita, Rie Tanaka and Yuriko Yamaguchi. The animated series had six 15+ minute ...
Blackwood, Gary L
(1945- ) US author, in Canada from 2005, most of his work being for Young Adult readers; he began publishing work of genre interest with "Ethan Unbound" in Short Circuits: Thirteen Shocking Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (anth 1992) edited by Donald R Gallo, tales like The Lion and the Unicorn (1982) – in which marginal fantasy elements attend hints that the Robin ...
Titanic
The loss on 15 April 1912 of RMS Titanic – at that time the largest passenger liner in existence – following its 14 April collision with an iceberg and the discovery of a serious lifeboat shortage, is an early and still very well remembered twentieth-century Icon of Disaster. Though direct relevance to sf is marginal, it is notable that four sf authors given entries in this book died in the shipwreck: John Jacob ...
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 ...