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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Logorama
French animated short film (2009). H5. Directed by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, and Ludovic Houplain. Written by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain and Gregory J Pruss. Voice cast includes Sherman Augustus and Bob Stephenson. 16 minutes. Colour. / In Los Angeles, California, two snacking cops (Augustus and Stephenson) are notified of a suspect in their vicinity: ...
Gwen, or the Book of Sand
French animated film (1985; original title Gwen, ou le livre de sable; vt Gwen, the Book of Sand; vt Gwen; vt Gwen and the Book of Sand). La Fabrique, Films de la Demoiselle, Antenne 2. Directed by Jean-François Laguionie. Written by Jean-Pierre Gaspari and Jean-François Laguionie. Voice cast includes Armand Babel, Lorella Di Cicco, Raymond Jourdan and Michel Robin. 61 minutes. Colour. / Roseline (Robin), a 173-year-old woman, recalls a tale ...
Infinity Plus
Sf/fantasy fiction and reviews website edited 1997-2006 by Keith Brooke. Infinity Plus is now dormant, but its archives can still be read online. [DRL] links / Infinity Plus
Edwards, James
(? -? ) US author of John Bull, Uncle Sam and Johnny Crapaud (1884), a Lost World tale set in East Africa, where survivors of a shipwreck stumble into an unknown land once inhabited by a race now entirely vanished, and now occupied by Americans from Virginia, who have established a Utopia there. Edwards may have been a professor at a college which has not been identified. [JC]
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 ...