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Campbell, Ramsey
(1946- ) UK author, primarily of Horror, son-in-law of A Bertram Chandler; he has also published as Montgomery Comfort and Jay Ramsey, and under the House Names Carl Dreadstone and E K Leyton. His earliest work, dating from 1957 to 1963 (but not then released professionally), was assembled as two ...
Braswell, Liz
(? - ) UK-born Videogame producer and author, in America from childhood; known for her series under various pseudonyms, which include Tracy Lynn, J B Stephens, Celia Thomson and the House Name Robb Kidd. Of greatest sf interest is the Big Empty sequence, all as by J B Stephens, and beginning with The Big Empty (2004), a Young Adult series ...
X the Unknown
Film (1956). Hammer/Warner Bros. Directed by Leslie Norman (replacing Joseph Walton). Written by Jimmy Sangster. Cast includes Edward Chapman, Dean Jagger, William Lucas, Leo McKern and Anthony Newley. 86 minutes, cut to 78 minutes in the USA. Black and white. / In this Hammer sf/Horror film made soon after the success of their The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) – the "X" in both cases ...
Gantz, Kenneth F
(1905-1996) US Air Force officer (Lt Colonel) and author, mostly of nonfiction such as Man in Space: The United States Air Force Program for Developing the Spacecraft Crew (1959); he edited The United States Air Force Report on the Ballistic Missile (anth 1958). His Near Future sf novel, Not in Solitude (1959; rev 1961), fictionalizes a first voyage to Mars, closely and vividly describing ...
Kon Satoshi
(1963-2010) Japanese Manga artist and Anime director whose brief career produced several landmark works questioning human Perception of reality (see also Metaphysics). Kon became an art assistant to Katsuhiro Ōtomo while still a student at Musashino Arts University, and was acclaimed for his early manga work Toriko ["Captive"] (1984 ...
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 ...