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Forsyth, Frederick
(1938-2025) UK author who gained fame with his first novel, The Day of the Jackal (1971), and whose books are generally political thrillers. The Shepherd (1975 chap), however, is a sentimental Timeslip or ghost fantasy in which a pilot on Christmas Eve 1957 is saved from crashing by a World War Two pilot in an antique bomber: pilot and plane had been shot down on the Christmas Eve of 1943. ...
Parker, Daniel
Pseudonym of US author Daniel Ehrenhaft (? - ), almost all of whose work has been for the Young Adult market, those books written under his own name not being fantastic. As Parker, he wrote the Countdown Alternate World sequence of twelve novels, published at monthly intervals during 1999, beginning with January (1998) and ending with December (1999). ...
Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame
Career Award for life achievement in Comics, so named in honour of Will Eisner (1917-2005), creator of the comic The Spirit (1940-1952) and author of influential analyses of comic art and narrative; presented annually since 1988 (with 1990 skipped owing to administrative complications); since 1991 the presentations have taken place at the San Diego Comic-Con Convention. Also included below are the ...
Planetfall
Videogame (1983). Infocom. Designed by Steve Meretzky. Platforms: AppleII, Atari8, DOS, PCBoot, TRS80 (1983); Mac (1984); AtariST, C64 (1985); Amiga, Amstrad (1986). / The text Adventure game Planetfall is a mildly comic Space Opera, remembered largely for the strong emotional reactions it evoked in many players. At the ...
Vibbert, Marie
(1974- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Brain Trust" in Reflection's Edge for February 2006. Her first novel, Galactic Hellcats (2021), describes with mild gusto its two protagonists' adventures with "space motorcycles" as, variously pursued, they upset the applecart on a planet new to them, and continue their flight to interstellar glory. In the Near Future MegaDeath (2022) ...
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 ...