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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Furney, Elliott E
(1848-1914) US medical doctor (based in St Louis, Missouri), inventor and author, whose Culture, a Modern Method (1891) applies techniques that might a century later be described as Genetic Engineering with Lamarckian implications, with the Invention of a process by which unhealthy cellular material is recast and rejuvenated; further experiments, where animals are – perhaps surgically – modified into ...
Man from U.N.C.L.E., The
1. US tv series (1964-1968). Arena Productions/MGM for NBC TV. Executive producer Norman Felton. Writers included Harlan Ellison, Howard Rodman, Sam Rolfe, Henry Slesar, David Victor. Directors included Don Medford, Boris Sagal, Joseph Sargent, Barry Shear. 105 50-minute episodes. First season black and white, subsequent three seasons colour. / This was one of Television's first ...
Min, Juli
(? - ) Korean author, raised in USA, currently in China, where her first novel, the Near Future Shanghailanders (2024), is primarily set. What can be seen of the life of a prosperous family in that year, a sighting focused primarily through the maglev train (see Transportation) on which they are travelling to different destinations, conveys a not implausible sense that ...
My Adventures with Superman
US animated tv series (2023-current). Warner Bros. Animation, DC Studios, Studio Mir. Based on the DC Comics characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Series developed by Jake Wyatt. Directed by Jen Bennett, Diana Huh and Christina Manrique. Writers include Aman Adumer, Josie Campbell, Brendan Clogher, Angela Entzminger, Cynthia Furey, M Willis and Jake Wyatt. Voice cast includes ...
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 ...