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Punch Punch Forever
Irish/Japanese online animated series (2023-current). Created, directed and written by Speedoru. Voice cast includes Chihaya Hanai, KL, Hinako Mori, Emi Miyajima and Akari Una. Two episodes to date, 8-12 minutes. Colour. / Earth's northern hemisphere is now red and seemingly molten, whilst the southern is blue, likely ocean; an orbital ring circles the equator, but has fragmented along one stretch. This is due to our planet's collision 200 years ago with the ...
All Top Comics
US Comic (1944; 1946-1949). Fox Publications, Inc. Artists include Matt Baker, Ellis Chambers and Jack Kamen. Script writers include Pat Adams and Jack Kamen. 20 issues. Initially published in 1944, All Top Comics was one of several single-issue 132-page comics published by Fox at this time; others included The Book of Comics, All Good Comics, All Your Comics (all 1944) and ...
Desfontaines, Pierre François Guyot
(1685-1745) French Jesuit, who left the order in 1715; critic, controversialist, translator and author; he is now remembered primarily for his quarrels with Voltaire. After translating Jonathan Swift's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships (1726 4vols) in 1727, he published ...
Dobson, Bonnie
(1940- ). Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Her best-known song, "Morning Dew", first recorded for the album Bonnie Dobson at Folk City (1962), tells of the last surviving man and woman after a nuclear apocalypse (see Post-Holocaust), with a lavish string arrangement to embellish the simple folk melody. The lyrics were inspired by the film On the Beach (1959), directed by Stanley ...
Gibbins, David
(1962- ) Canadian archaeologist and author, partly resident in the UK, of whose novels Atlantis (2005) is of sf interest, as the rediscovered Atlantis proves to contain secrets of ancient science of planetary importance, and likely to cause a Holocaust, a threat dealt with in The Last Gospel (2008) and The Gods of Atlantis (2011). Crusader Gold (2006), a ...
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 ...