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Meade, L T
Working name of UK author Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844-1914), now best remembered for her numerous and sometimes inventive books for girls, but some of whose romances of detection and sedition are of sf interest, though the sometimes-cited John Bell sequence – assembled as A Master of Mysteries (coll of linked stories June-November 1897 Cassell's Magazine; 1898) with Robert Eustace – is not, as the mysteries are ...
Radcliffe, Garnett
(1898-1971) UK author of occasional sf, who also wrote detective thrillers as by Stephen Travers; of sf interest is the title novella of The Return of the Ceteosaurus, and Other Tales (coll 1926), which pits a huge saurian (see Dinosaurs) against a Death Ray. The Great Orme Terror (1934) is a crime thriller whose Villains deploy murderous Robots. The ...
Brown, J G
(1901-1990) New Zealand teacher and editor whose work in the latter capacity has not been restricted to sf. His Anthology, From Frankenstein to Andromeda (anth 1966), is a conscientious scouring of sf materials through a century and a half, including both short stories and excerpts from several novels ranging from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818; rev ...
Koch, Gini
Pseudonym of US author Jeanne Cook (1963- ), who also writes as Jemma Chase, Anita Ensal, G J Koch and J C Koch. She began to publish work of genre interest with "Road Rage" as by J C Koch in Arkham Tales: A Magazine of Weird Fiction for May 2009. Her best known and most extensive work is the ongoing Alien or Kitty Katt series opening with Touched by an Alien (2010). These mingle action-adventure ...
Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire
South Africa/Nigeria/US animated television series (2023). Triggerfish Animation Studios. Executive producer: Peter Ramsey. Voice cast includes Kehinde Bankole, May Elghety, Blair Koono, Gigi Lamayne, Mo Mjamba, Sheila Munyiva, Nasty C, Mandisa Nduna, Pious Nyenyewa, Laith Nakli, Toluwanimi Olaoye, Sechaba Ramphele, Rene Setlhako, Pearl Thusi and Stycie Waweru. Ten 12-13 minute episodes. Colour. / Involving creators from Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, this ...
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 ...