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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Yamada Masaki
(1950- ) Immensely prolific Japanese crime and sf author, who first became involved in the genre while studying economics at Meiji University. His debut work, the Seiun Award-winning novella "Kamigari" ["Godhunting"] (July 1974 S-F Magazine; fixup as Ryūhyō Minzoku ["Ice Tribes"] 1976), aped Ryō Hanmura in suggesting that the divinities and ...
De Veer, Willem
(1865-1932) Dutch author, doctor of law (University of Amsterdam) and colonial judge for the Dutch East India Company, latterly living in the UK. No Dutch version of his An Emperor in the Dock (1915), which is an Alternate History of World War One, has been found. [JC]
White, Alan
(1924-2003) UK author, almost exclusively of thrillers, often in a war setting, his best known novel probably being A Long Day's Dying (1962); his several pseudonyms, which include James Fraser, Alec Haigh, Joe Balham and others, were used only for nonfantastic works. Of sf interest is Black Alert (1985), a Near Future Technothriller in which a renegade soldier, who has gained control of a military ...
Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World
Japanese animated tv series (2016-2021). Original title Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu. Based on the web and Light Novels by Tappei Nagatsuki. White Fox. Directed by Masaharu Watanabe. Written by Masahiro Yokotani. Voice cast includes Yūsuke Kobayashi, Inori Minase, Rie Murakawa and Rie Takahashi. 50 25-minute episodes, plus 50 online shorts and two OVA films. Colour. / Walking home from the convenience ...
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 ...