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White, Ted
Working name of US editor and author Theodore Edwin White (1938-2026), who also wrote as by Ron Archer, Norman Edwards and William C Johnstone. He was co-editor 1958-1969 of the noted Fanzine Void founded by Gregory Benford and Jim Benford. After working as assistant editor for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1963-1968, he became the sometimes ...
Milo Murphy's Law
US animated tv series (2018-2019). Disney Television Animation (see Disney on Television). Created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. Directed by Bob Bowen and Robert F. Hughes. Writers include Jim Bernstein, Scott D Peterson and Joshua Pruett. Voice cast includes Sabrina Carpenter, Mekai Curtis, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, Kate Micucci, Dan Povenmire and "Weird Al" Yankovic. 39 22-minute episodes (usually ...
Carnacki
Thomas Carnacki is an early fictional Occult Detective [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], who, unlike most such investigators, uses scientific means to investigate hauntings. He was created by William Hope Hodgson with five Club Stories that ran in The Idler in 1910, plus a sixth in New Magazine in ...
Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer
Japanese animated film (1984). Kitty Films, Pierrot. Directed and written by Mamoru Oshii. Voice cast includes Takuya Fujioka, Toshio Furukawa, Fumi Hirano, Michihiro Ikemizu, Akira Kamiya, Saeko Shimazu and Machiko Washio. 99 minutes. Colour. / The second of the six films made as part of the Urusei Yatsura franchise, based on the Manga by Rumiko ...
Ester, R T
(?1986- ) Nigerian visual designer and author, in USA from 1998, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Meddling Fields" in Clarkesworld for March 2022. His first novel, The Ganymedan (2025), unusually begins on long-settled Mars and carries its protagonist into already sell-settled interstellar Space Opera country on a complexly introspective ...
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 ...