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McDermot, Murtagh
Pseudonym of an unidentified UK or Irish author (? -? ) whose satirical Moon-voyage novel, A Trip to the Moon (1727 chap) [for subtitle see Checklist], describes various remarkable sights and beings, initially in the Fantastic Voyage mode of Jonathan Swift, as "McDermot" takes ship to Tenerife before undergoing his abrupt transit into space; the ...
Detonator Orgun
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1991-1992). AIC, Artmic. Directed by Masami Ōbari. Written by Hideki Kakinuma. Voice cast includes Michi Kanzaki, Hiroko Kasahara, Emi Shinohara, Nobuo Tanaka, Kenji Utsumi and Kōichi Yamadera. Three 49-57 minute episodes. Colour. / City no.5 is a metropolis floating on Earth's equator during the early twenty-fourth century; things are generally idyllic, though television psychic ...
Super Sentai
Super Sentai (original title Sūpā Sentai Shirīzu), is a long-running (1975-current) Superhero franchise in the Tokusatsu genre, made by the Toei Company: it also includes the Power Rangers (1993-current) series. It is as of January 2021 the world's 32nd highest-grossing media franchise. The first two series, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger ...
Garson, Vaseleos
Pseudonym of US author William J Garson (? - ), who began to publish work of genre interest with "One Against the Stars" in Planet Stories for Summer 1944, and who was moderately active in the 1940s. His sf novel, Brother Earth (1974), is an elaborate but unremarkable Space Opera. [JC]
Fantastic Universe
US Digest-size magazine, last six issues adopted a trimmed Pulp format, though on better quality paper. 69 issues June/July 1953 to March 1960, published by King-Size Publications to July 1959, then by Great American Publications. Fantastic Universe began as a bimonthly, but went monthly in September 1954 and held to that schedule for most of its life except November 1958-September 1959, when it was again bimonthly. ...
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 ...