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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 ...
Russen, David
(? -? ) UK author whose life has not been traced in detail, though records from 1690 to 1703 point to a life in Kent, perhaps mostly in Hythe. He is of Proto-Sf interest for an extended book-review published in book form, ...
Walker, Steve
(1956- ) UK playwright, poet, illustrator and author, initially best known for his Radio plays, almost all forty of them for the BBC, beginning with "Him and It" (October 1988 Radio 4), an exercise in Absurdist SF. Other plays of interest, several similar pushing Satire into the absurd, include "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" (28 December 1994 Radio 4), adapting the ...
Magilumiere Co. Ltd.
Japanese animated tv series (2024; vt Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.; original title Kabushiki Gaisha Majirumie). Moe. J.C.Staff. Directed by Masahiro Hiraoka. Written by Shingo Nagai. Based on the Manga by Sekka Iwata and Yu Aoki. Voice cast includes Fairouz Ai, Akira Ishida, Yumiri Hanamori, Hiyori Kono, Rikiya Koyama and Daiki Yamashita. Twelve 24 minute episodes. Colour. / Being a Magical Girl is "a respectable ...
Stratemeyer Syndicate
Story factory or fiction packager operated by Edward Stratemeyer (whom see) and subsequently (after his death in 1930) by his daughters Harriet Stratemeyer Adams and Edna Stratemeyer Squier. From 1906, beginning with the Boys of Business sequence as by Allen Chapmen and the Boy Hunters tales as by Stratemeyer himself writing as by Captain Ralph Bonehill, the Syndicate generated hundreds of ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...