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Luftpirat und sein Lenkbares Luftschiff, Der
["The Pirate of the Air and his Navigable Airship"] German Dime-Novel series, popularly known as Kapitän Mors der Luftpirat; it has no connection with a 1948 series of the same name. One of the most popular series of its day, its author or authors are unknown, but well-known writers like Oskar Hoffmann (1866-1928) may have been involved; and, since its adventures take place alternately on Earth and in space, it may have been written by two people. ...
Amis, Martin
(1949-2023) UK journalist and author, son of Kingsley Amis; both father and son, perhaps unusually, achieving a similar eminence in the same field (and both dying at the age of 73); he wrote many reviews as by Henry Tilney. From the first his novels threaten and distress their protagonists – and their readers – with narrative displacements that undermine consensual reality, so that moments of normality in his work are, like as not, intended to ...
Schiff, Stuart David
(1946- ) US army dentist and editor best known in sf/fantasy circles for editing Whispers (which see), a Semiprozine of some note that ran from 1973 to 1987 and spun off the Whispers Anthology series beginning with Whispers: An Anthology of Fantasy and Horror (anth 1977) [see Checklist below]. Schiff has also edited other anthologies such as the ...
Star Trek: Lower Decks
US animated tv series (2020-2024). 219 Productions, CBS Eye Animation Productions, Important Science, Roddenberry Entertainment, Secret Hideout, Titmouse. Created by Mike McMahan, based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry. Directed by Kim Arndt, Barry J Kelly, Bob Suarez and Jason Zurek. Writers include Mike McMahan. Voice cast includes Eugene Cordero, Dawnn Lewis, Tawny Newsome, Jerry O'Connell, Jack Quaid, ...
Worlds of Ultima
Videogame series (from 1990). Origin Systems (OS). / The Worlds of Ultima series was launched as a spinoff from the Ultima sequence of Sword and Sorcery Computer Role Playing Games. The central conceit of Ultima is that the player is represented by the Avatar, an individual from our own world who enters the fantasy land of Britannia through 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 ...