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Moore, Chris

(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...

Palmer, Jane

(1946-    ) UK author and illustrator who began writing sf with the Moosevan sequence – comprising The Planet Dweller (1985), Moving Moosevan (1990), Duckbill Soup (2011) and Brassica Park (2018) – which presents a comic set of Parodies of sf Clichés as the giant Shapeshifting ...

Wonder Comics

US Comic (1944-1948). 20 issues. Great Comics Publications Inc. (#1-#7), Better Publications Inc. (#8-#20). Twenty issues. Artists include Ken Battefield, Al Camy, Bob Oksner and Alex Schomburg. Script writers include Al Hartley and Charles S. Strong. 52 pages. Each issue would have four long strips, plus a few short strips (some non-fiction) and a short text story. Initially Wonder Comics featured action stories in a variety ...

Battle Royale

Japanese film (2000). Toei Company presents a GAGA, Kobi Co, MF Pictures, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K K and WOWOW production in association with AM Associates and Fukasaku-gumi. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Written by Kenta Fukasaku from the novel Battle Royale by Kōshun Takami. Cast includes Masanobu Ando, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama, Aki Maeda and Tarō Yamamoto. 114 minutes. Colour. / ...

Kindberg, Tim

(?   -    ) UK computer scientist and author who is of moderate sf interest for his first novel, The Vampires of Avonmouth (2021), an Equipoisal tale featuring a sea-borne Invasion of untraditional Vampires – energy eaters rather than blood suckers – in distant Near Future suburban Bristol (see ...

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 ...



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