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Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe, The
US Comic (1953-1954). 4 issues. Lev Gleason Publications. Artists include Mort Leav, Ed Martinott, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Alex Toth. Three strips per issue, plus miscellaneous short non-fiction pieces – usually on science or history, though #1 has "Buster Crabbe: One Terrific Swell Guy". / Buster Crabbe (1908-1983), real name Clarence Linden Crabbe II, was a US Olympic swimming gold medallist (1932, 400 metres ...
Lethbridge, Olive
Working name of Irish-born author Olive Ada Lethbridge Banbury (1885-1971), in UK from an undetermined date; her Lost Race novel, As a Lioness That Sleeps: A Novel of Africa (1931), sets a romantic engagement with a handsome race in Africa. [JC]
Mignogna, Adeena
(? - ) US software engineer and author whose Robot Galaxy Space Opera sequence, beginning with Crazy Foolish Robots (2021), exposes its human protagonist to a planet inhabited by Robots threatened by their own literal programming and inimical forces from without. As a programmer herself, she reluctantly becomes involved in helping them survive. There are comic elements (see ...
Robert A Heinlein Award
Award presented in memory of Robert A Heinlein for "outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings to inspire the human exploration of space", under the auspices of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Award winners are selected by a jury of sf authors; following the initial presentation in 2003 to Michael F Flynn and Virginia Heinlein, almost all recipients have also ...
Vinton, Arthur Dudley
(1852-1906) US lawyer and author whose Looking Further Backward: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered to the Freshman Class at Shawmut College by Professor Won Lung Li (Successor of Prof Julian West) [for full subtitle see Checklist] (coll 1890) works as a direct sequel to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), demonstrating how the world of 2000 has been fatally feminized and vulnerable to Invasion; ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...