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Staniland, Meaburn
(1914-1992) UK antiquarian bookseller, editor and author, probably a descendant of the nineteenth-century politician Meaburn Staniland (1809-1898), Liberal Member of Parliament for Boston, Lincolnshire; with Penguin Books in the 1960s-1970s. His sf novel Back to the Future (1947) – which is in no way a precursor of Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels – sends its protagonist by defective ...
Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1987). AIC, Artmic. Directed and written by Shinji Aramaki. Voice cast includes Youko Asagami, Yukiko Ishida, Yasunori Matsumoto and Kazuyuki Sogabe. 42 minutes. Colour. / Wearing Powered Armour, for which she designed the software, Ellie Kusumoto (Asagami) defeats a group of remote-controlled US tanks in the hope of selling it to their military. Afterwards the vehicle transporting ...
Ancient Egypt in SF
From one perspective, ancient Egyptians were the creators of sf, since they were obsessed with the future, crafted narratives describing the future destinies of the dead (which can be regarded as early forms of sf), and built monuments and wrote texts inscribed in stone and paintings explicitly designed to convey messages to their descendants. And it is undeniable that, ever since Napoleon's excursions in Egypt in the early nineteenth century brought its ancient culture to widespread modern ...
Orton, Hugh
(? -? ) UK author of fiction for boys, seemingly active only in the mid-1920s; The King of Chaos (10 May-12 July 1924 Pluck as "Fangs of the Unknown"; 1927 chap), set in a 1950 Future War, pits a lad against a Villain who threatens Britain. [JC/RR] see also: Boys' Friend Library; Boys' Papers. / ...
Camp Camp
US animated online series (2016-2024). Rooster Teeth. Created by Jordan Cwierz and Miles Luna. Executive Producers Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum. Writers include Jordan Cwierz, Gray G Haddock, Miles Luna, Elizabeth Maxwell and Kerry Shawcross. Directors include Yssa Badiola and Jordan Cwierz. Voice cast includes Jen Brown, Lee Eddy, Lindsay Jones, Michael Jones, Yuri Lowenthal, Miles Luna, Shannon McCormick and Yotam Perel. 64 episodes of varying length. Colour. / Two new arrivals at ...
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 ...