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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Joyce, Graham
(1954-2014) UK author and from 1996 also a reader in and teacher of creative writing at Nottingham Trent University, Nottinghamshire. He began to publish work of genre interest with Dreamside (1991), in which four university students involved in an experimental study of lucid dreaming develop a shared hallucination or alternate reality known as Dreamside, which they reject after bad experiences but which returns to haunt them in later life; the effect is one of ...
Man Who Fell To Earth, The [tv]
US tv series (2022). Production companies include CBS Studios, Timberman-Beverly Productions for Showtime Networks. Created by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet. Executive producers include Rola Bauer, Carl Beverly and Francoise Guyonnet. Producers include Jon Dudkowski, Robyn Johnson and Adrian Kelly. Directors include Joss Agnew, Sarah Harding and Alex Kurtzman. Writers include Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet and Jane Maggs. Actors include Rob Delaney, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Kate ...
Martin, Troy Kennedy
(1932-2009) Scottish-born scriptwriter, in England from childhood, best known for non-fantastic work such as the BBC police procedural series Z Cars (1962-1978), which he created and for which he supplied scripts intermittently; brother of Ian Kennedy Martin. Some of the Satirical nihilism of his script for the film Kelly's Heroes (1970), directed by Brian G Hutton, disappeared when the studio ...
Racina, Thom
Working name of US author Thomas Frank Raucina (1946- ), extremely prolific under various names at the beginning of his career (Racina states that he published 157 books under various pseudonyms before his first acknowledged title), some of this output being soft pornography, though there is nothing (apparently) of genre interest; mostly during the 1980s, he also wrote for a number of television serials, some of them high-rating soap operas. His first signed book, ...
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 ...