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Bourbon Penn
US Online Magazine, first issue published February 2011, with usually 2-3 issues a year (but only one in 2014 and 2015). Also available in ebook and print editions, the latter under the Blurb imprint. Edited by Erik Secker. Each issue has 5-7 short stories, with the occasional novelette; in terms of genre, they are broadly speculative fiction, favouring weird Horror – the website's description is "slipstream, ...
Reid, Rob
(1966- ) US venture capitalist, journalist and author whose nonfiction Architects of the Web (1997) is a strong early study of the Internet (see also Media Landscape). His sf novel, Year Zero (2012) is a comic Satire on the Near Future Music industry. Two Aliens, who ...
Bradley, Kaliane
(1988- ) UK editor and author in whose first novel, The Ministry of Time (2024), the extraction of living historical figures via Time Travel has become possible. Commander Graham Gore (1809-1847), an historical officer attached to the doomed Franklin Expedition to the Arctic in search of a Northwest Passage (see Imperialism), has been reawoken in a Near Future ...
Android: Netrunner
Collectible Card Game (2012). Fantasy Flight Games; reissued 2019 by Null Signal Games. Designed by Richard Garfield, Lukas Litzsinger. / Android: Netrunner (more commonly known as Netrunner) is a Living Card Game (LCG) or Expandable Card Game (ECG) (see Collectible Card Game) for two players; since Living Card Game is a trademark of Fantasy Flight ...
Brunt, Captain Samuel
Pseudonym of the unidentified author (? - ) of A Voyage to Cacklogallinia; with a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country (1727); the facsimile edition of this rare text (1940), with an introduction by Marjorie Nicolson, is useful; the novel itself, best understood as a Satire on British politics, commerce and culture, takes Captain ...
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 ...