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Fox, Karen
(1956- ) US author of romantic sf adventures, who has also written as by Paula Gill, beginning with Sword of MacLeod (1997), the first volume of the Scanner Universe sequence of Space Opera romances set in venues under the sway of a Galactic Empire inimical to Psi Powers. She has contributed material to the Hope Chest ...
Kantor, MacKinlay
(1904-1977) US author best known for such works outside the sf field as Andersonville (1955), a long novel set during the US Civil War, the area of his deepest concern. That war is also the setting for If the South Had Won the Civil War (22 November 1960 Look; 1961; exp as coll 2001), the Alternate-History thesis of the title being a favourite crux for US writers in the genre; the ...
Kid Cosmic
US animated online tv series (2020-2022). Netflix Animation. Created by Craig McCracken. Directors include Craig McCracken, Justin Nichols, Rob Renzetti and Dave Thomas. Writers include Lauren Faust, Craig McCracken and Rob Renzetti. Voice cast includes Keith Ferguson, Jack Fisher, Tom Kenny, Amanda C Miller, Bobby Moynihan, Lily Rose Silver, Cree Summer, Fred Tatasciore and Kim Yarbrough. 24 16-23 minute episodes (and five shorts). Colour. / When ...
de Vigan, Delphine
(1966- ) French author, active from around 2000, who has also published as by Lou Delvig. D'après une histoire vrai ["Based on a True Story"] (2015), filmed as Based on a True Story (2017) directed by Roman Polanski, hints at Identity Exchange in its depicting of the gradual transference of characteristics between a writer and the woman she has befriended (see also ...
Bell, Neal
(? - ) US author whose sf novel Gone to Be Snakes Now (1974), set initially in an isolated Keep in a Ruined Earth America, traces events after the Mutant-haunted, Sex-irradiated wilderness beyond the walls is entered. [JC]
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 ...