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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Bramah, Ernest
Working name of UK author Ernest Brammah Smith (1868-1942) for all his writing; he is best-known for two series, the Max Carrados sequence [see Checklist below] about a blind detective, all of whose Perceptions (except of course sight) are enormously enhanced by rigorous training; and a series of tales in which the Chinese Kai Lung displays his skills as a professional story-teller – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. ...
My Hero Academia
Japanese animated tv series (2016-current). Original title Boku no Hero Academia. Based on the Manga by Kōhei Horikoshi. Studio Bones. Directors include Masahiro Mukai, Kenji Nagasaki and Naomi Nakayama. Written by Kōhei Horikoshi and Yôsuke Kuroda. Voice cast includes Go Inoue, Kenta Miyake, Nobuhiko Okamoto and Daiki Yamashita. 159 24-minute episodes to date (plus ten OVAs). Colour. / My Hero Academia ...
Screen Monsters
US letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine printed on newsprint. Publisher: Myron Fass as SJ Publications Incorporated. Editor: possibly Jeffrey Goodman. Three quarterly issues, all 1981. / One of the last Media Magazines from Fass, Screen Monsters used a good deal of reprinted content from older sf film magazines which Fass had issued in the 1970s, plus a modest amount of new material ...
Aaron, Rachel
(1982- ) US author who also writes under her married name Rachel Bach, her husband and occasional collaborator being Travis Bach, and who initially became known for the Legend of Eli Monpress fantasy sequence beginning with The Spirit Thief (2010). Her first work of sf interest was the Paradox series – comprising Fortune's Pawn (2013), Honor's Knight (2014) and ...
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 ...