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Crawford, Betty Anne
(1952- ) US author who published fantasy novels [see Checklist below] as by Hendra Benoit, Lee Creighton, Maxwell Hurley and Sal Liquori; under her own name, she published her only sf novel, The Bushido Incident (1992), which depicts a twenty-first-century Earth dominated by Japanese corporations while Aliens from outer space begin to destabilize this system. [JC]
Golden Bat, The
Japanese film (1966). Original title Ōgon Bat, sometimes rendered as Ōgon Batto. Toei Company. Based on the character created by Suzuki Ichiro and Takeo Nagamatsu. Directed by Hajime Sato. Written by Susumu Takaku. Cast includes Sonny Chiba, Andrew Hughes, Emiri Takami, Hisako Tsukuba and Wataru Yamakawa. 73 minutes. Black and white. / Amateur astronomer Akira Kazahaya (Yamakawa) is abducted by four silent men in black suits and ...
Wagar, W Warren
(1932-2004) US academic (professor of history since 1971 at the State University of New York at Binghamton, which has since 1991 been Binghamton University) and author. He has published sf – his first story being "Heart's Desire" in Asimov's for July 1984 – but his involvement in the field comes primarily through his many years of work on H G Wells in books like H.G. Wells and the World State (1961), ...
Carey, Louise
(1992- ) UK author, daughter of Mike Carey, with whom she has collaborated on some fantasy tales [for more details see his entry]. She is of sf interest for her first solo novel, the Young Adult Inscape (2021), set in a Near Future Dystopian world, where as an armed agent of the state of InTech, the protagonist must risk her life in ...
Rosenberg, Joel
(1954-2011) Canadian author, in the US from an early age; he began publishing sf with "Like the Gentle Rains" in Asimov's for February 1982, but clearly felt more comfortable with tales of novel length. His first book, The Sleeping Dragon (1983), a Sword-and-Sorcery fantasy, began the Recursive Guardians of the Flame sequence, which ends with ...
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 ...