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Lacey, Alan
(1926- ) UK author whose first novel, A Land Without Mercy (1974), combines fantasy and tropes out of Prehistoric SF without much energy in a tale of early Britain. The Love Warrior (1975) is a Planetary Romance set partly on what was once a colony planet of a now forgotten Earth, and where Wars are now conducted by soldiers in medieval garb with ...
Adam Adamant Lives!
UK tv series (1966-1967). BBC. Produced by Verity Lambert. Directed by Moira Armstrong, Laurence Bourne, Anthea Browne-Wilkinson, Philip Dudley, Leonard Lewis, Ridley Scott, William Slater and others. Writers included Brian Clemens and many others. Created by Donald Cotton, Harris. Cast includes Peter Ducrow, Juliet Harmer, Gerald Harper and Jack May. 29 50-minute episodes in two series. Black and white. / In 1902 ...
High, Philip E
(1914-2006) UK author, variously employed before working (from 1950 until his retirement in 1979) as a bus driver. He began to publish sf in September 1955 with "The Statics" for Authentic Science Fiction #61 and contributed to other UK magazines, including New Worlds and especially Nebula Science Fiction, for several years before the appearance of his first sf novel. He ...
Kitasei, Yume
(1987- ) US management consultant for New York government and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Super" in Metaphorosis for October 2019. Her first novel, The Deep Sky (2023), is a Space Opera set primarily on a Generation Starship carrying an elite corps of humans (see Eugenics) away from an Earth ...
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
(1928-2007). Avant-garde classical composer, revered and reviled in equal measure for his uncompromising musical experiments. From the 1950s on Stockhausen developed his own style, challenging standard definitions of quantities like tone, scale and rhythm, utilizing aleatory and formulaic methodologies, and happy to work with electronic and other unconventional instruments: for instance: 1992's Helikopter-Streichquartett is scored "for string quartet and four helicopters" (see ...
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 ...