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Foyle, Naomi
(? - ) UK editor, poet and author whose first novel, Seoul Survivors (2013), is a Near Future thriller set just before a meteor known as Lucifer's Hammer threatens to devastate the planet, as in Larry Niven's and Jerry Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer (1977), about a Comet striking Earth. A plot to use ...
Abel, R Cox
(1912-2001) UK aviation researcher (for the Hawker Siddeley group of aircraft manufacturing companies) and author who designed a fictional Ion Drive for his collaborative novel Trivana I (1966) with Charles Barren. The titular Spaceship's mission is to colonize Venus (see Colonization of Other Worlds). [DRL]
Schaefer, Charles
(? - ) US author of Star of the Sun (1997), whose protagonist in the distant Near Future discovers in a small Mediterranean Island a cuneiform reference to a mysterious Disaster; later, undergoing tribulations in a research establishment on Titan (see Outer Planets), he witnesses the devastation of Saturn by a giant ...
Royo, Luis
(1954- ) Spanish artist. In recent years he sometimes collaborates with his son Rómulo Royo (1976- ), who is also an artist. After formal training at Spain's La Escuela de Artes Aplicados, he first launched a career as a painter, and his works were featured in several exhibitions. He then shifted his attention to Comics, publishing strips in several fanzines and professional magazines, including ...
Favreau, Jon
(1966- ) US filmmaker and actor, who has worked his way diligently up the directorial lists by a willingness to take on a wide range of studio projects across a range of fantasy genres. Already an established screen actor by the mid-nineties, he wrote and/or directed a series of films with Vince Vaughn, beginning with Swingers (1996), as well as a number of films and series episodes for television. After a hit with the Christmas comedy Elf ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...