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Moesta, Rebecca
(1956- ) German-born US author, married to Kevin J Anderson, who in her solo work has concentrated mostly on Ties to the Star Wars universe, beginning with Star Wars: Junior Jedi Knights: Anakin's Quest (1997), and with one title, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Little Things (2002), contributed to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer sequence. ...
Brom
Working name of American artist Gerald Brom (1965- ). Growing up in the family of a United States Army pilot, the young Brom lived in a number of locations and concluded his formal education by graduating from high school in Frankfurt, Germany. The self-trained Brom first worked in commercial art before joining TSR in 1989, contributing art to the Dungeons and Dragons game and painting book covers, with particular attention to developing imagery for the Dungeons and ...
Foreman, Russell
(1921-2000) Australian author of a Near Future Disaster novel, The Ringway Virus (1976), in which a virus-based Pandemic 100% fatal to humans threatens to terminate the species; there is some small chance that isolated breeding couples will survive. [JC]
Helfers, John
(1972- ) US author, editor and military historian, married to Kerrie L Hughes, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Blood Ghost" in Phantoms of the Night (anth 1996) edited by Richard Gilliam and Martin H Greenberg. He subsequently edited many Anthologies, mostly in collaboration with Greenberg, ...
Captain Z-Ro
US tv series (1955-1956). Captain Z-Ro Productions/Atlas Television Productions. Syndicated. Created by Roy Steffens and Friedrich Schiller. Produced by Kathleen K Rawlings. Directed by David A Butler. Writers included Edward F Dolan Jr and Bob Keith. Cast includes Jack Cahill, Bruce Haynes, Roy Steffens and Bob Turnbull. 26 30-minute episodes. Black and white. / Set presumably in the present day of the mid-1950s, this series features Scientist Captain ...
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 ...