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Franson, Donald
(1916-2002) US fan, author and bibliographer who contributed letters to Astounding as early as the October 1934 issue. He began to publish fiction of genre interest with "Comes the Revolution" in Science Fiction Stories for March 1956; several further tales followed, from 1957 to 1987. He was strongly involved with the US National Fantasy Fan Federation or N3F, and edited or co-edited several issues of ...
Scot, Hew
Pseudonym of Scottish physician John James Graham Brown (1853-1925), a President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; as Hew Scot he wrote two thrillers with sf overtones: The Way of War (1907) which concerns a Near Future German conspiracy involving the Invasion of Britain; and A Wild Intrigue (1910), in which the formula for a new Weapon – an explosive of ...
Benjaminsen, Bjarne
(1980- ) Norwegian newspaper editor, journalist, poet, author and co-editor of the Norwegian Online Magazine Nye Nova ["New Nova"]; previous to his first book he had published comics, poems and fables in magazines and newspapers such as Psykose, Filologen, Klassekampen, Gateavisa, Lofot-Tidende and the Fanzine Kjærlighetsskjelv ...
Salamander
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1988-1989). Studio Pierrot. Loosely based on Salamander (vt Life Force; vt Raifu Fōsu) and Gradius, scrolling shooter arcade Videogames created by Konami. Directed by Hisayuki Toriumi. Written by Kazusane Hirashima. Voice cast includes Noriko Hidaka, Kazuhiko Inoue, Sumi Shimamoto, Hirotaka Suzuoki and Koji Tsujitani. Three episodes of circa 53 minutes. ...
Spacesuit Films
Spacesuit films, as defined by the critic who has promoted the term, Gary Westfahl, are those space films that endeavour to plausibly portray the harsh conditions and novel features of life in outer space and on other planets – such as the absence of air, zero or low Gravity, and dangerous radiation – as most prominently indicated by the fact that their characters constantly wear, or are in close proximity to, protective ...
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 ...