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Beaton, Alistair
(1947- ) Scottish playwright, journalist, translator, Television writer and author. He gained early recognition for co-authoring such television shows as Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979-1982); the Satirical The Trial of Tony Blair (first broadcast 15 January 2007 More4), set in 2010, primarily arraigns the prime minister for his support of the American war against Iraq. He is also ...
Franzen, Jonathan
(1959- ) US author best known for later nonfantastic novels, beginning with The Corrections (2002); his earlier work shares with Don DeLillo some of the older author's unrelenting focus on the Paranoia-inducing intricacies of American life, and with contemporaries like Michael Chabon or Jonathan Lethem an ...
Heaven's Design Team
Japanese animated tv series (2021). Original title Tenchi Sōzō Dezain-bu. Based on the Manga by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki and Tarako. Asahi Production. Directed by Sōichi Masui. Written by Michiko Yokote. Voice cast includes Junya Enoki, Yumi Hara, Kazuhiko Inoue, Daisuke Kishio, Naomi Ōzora, Junichi Suwabe, Naoki Tatsuta, Ryota Takeuchi, Asuna Tomari and Yūichirō Umehara. Thirteen 24-minute episodes. ...
Thompson, Ray
(? - ) UK author of an Young Adult sf novel, Ayron IV (1975), whose young protagonists, roaming across the eponymous planet (see Colonization of Other Worlds), find vehicular tracks that signal an Alien presence; and so it turns it out. Lessons in Xenobiology and Ecology are ...
Battlezone
Videogame (1998). Activision. Platforms: Win; rev vt Battlezone: Rise of the Black Dogs, N64 (2000); Amiga (2001). / Battlezone is an innovative Real Time Strategy game, inspired by the largely unrelated arcade tank combat game Battlezone (1980 Atari, Arcade, Others) designed by Ed Rotberg. Its gameplay uses a three-dimensional first person view to combine the physical ...
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 ...