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Outer Worlds, The
Videogame (2019). Obsidian Entertainment. Designed by Leonard Boyarsky, Tim Cain, and Charles Staples. Platforms: PS4, Win, XBoxOne (2019); Switch (2020). / Not to be confused with the same year's release, Outer Wilds, The Outer Worlds is a comic, first-person action Computer Role Playing Game that pits players against a coalition of inept but dastardly ...
Love, Death and Robots
US animated online tv series (2019-current). Blur Studio for Netflix. Created by Tim Miller. Executive producers Joshua Donen, David Fincher, Jennifer Miller and Tim Miller. Directors include Jerome Chen, Victor Maldonado, Tim Miller, Gabriele Pennacchioli and Alfredo Torres. Main adapter Philip Gelatt. Voice cast includes Elly Condron, Peter Franzen, Zita Hanrot, Michael B Jordan, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Steven Pacey, Kevin Michael Richardson, Emma Thornett and Scott Whyte. 35 ...
Neil, John
(? -? ) UK author of at least two sf novels, each published obscurely: The Eye of the Gods (1933 chap); and The Man of Mystery (1934), featuring a surgeon, blinded in World War One, who evolves his "pineal" eye with the idea of beginning a three-eyed race of Supermen. [JC]
Titterton, W R
(1876-1963) UK journalist, biographer, poet and author, perhaps best known for his long friendship and professional association with G K Chesterton, which he commemorated in a biography, G K Chesterton: A Portrait (1947). He also published a life of George Bernard Shaw, So This Is Shaw (1945 chap). The title tale assembled in The Death Ray Dictator and Other Stories (coll 1946) ...
Convertito, Bill
(? - ) US author of an sf thriller, The Rombella Shuttle (1977), in which radical changes in the environment and human behaviour leads to justified Paranoia about the corrupting presence of Aliens adapted to be indistinguishable from humans; the human protagonist falls in love with one of these, and the conspiracy begins to unravel. [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 ...