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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Ofshe, Richard
(1941- ) US sociologist, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His Anthology with critical commentary, The Sociology of the Possible (anth 1970) – aimed at students – is probably the best of the several pre-1980 collections designed to show the relevance of sf to Sociology. [PN/DRL]
Brown, Pierce
(1988- ) US author whose Red Rising sequence, comprising Red Rising (2014), Golden Son (2015) and Morning Star (2016), soon proves more interesting than its Young Adult Dystopia trappings might hint. The tale is set on Mars, where society is divided into castes according to imposed colour branding [for Colour-Coding, as more usually ...
Kemono Friends
Japanese animated tv series (2017-current). Yaoyorozu (season 1), Tomason (season 2). Created by Mine Yoshizaki. Season 1 directed and written by Tatsuki; season 2 directed by Ryuichi Kimura and written by Takuya Masumot. Voice cast includes Kanae Ito, Yuu Kobayashi, Ai Nonaka, Yuka Ozaki and Aya Uchida. 24 24-minute episodes to date (plus numerous shorts). Colour. / This cheaply produced show (the CG animation is particularly primitive) was developed to ...
Youll, Paul
(1965- ) British artist, identical twin brother of artist Stephen Youll. The younger of the two twins, Paul at first worked in tandem with his brother, as they studied art together at Durham's New College and Sunderland University and launched their careers by working collaboratively. Their first book cover, for Daniel Keys Moran's Emerald Eyes (1988), depicted a masked soldier wielding ...
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 ...