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All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1992-1993; original title Bannō Bunka Nekomusume). Animate Film. Directed by Yoshio Ishiwata. Written by Yuzo Takada, based on the Manga by Yuzo Takada. Voice cast includes Megumi Hayashibara, Akiko Hiramatsu, Aya Hisakawa, Kazue Ikura, Akira Kamiya, Mika Kanai and Saeko Shimaz. Six 28-minute episodes. Colour. / One Christmas, on discovering the ...
Thomas, Martin
Working name of UK author Thomas Hector Martin (1913-1985) in a career that began just after the end of World War Two; he also used the floating pseudonym Peter Saxon at least once during his association with W Howard Baker, for The Curse of Rathlaw (1968) in the Guardians psychic-investigators series. His first fantastic novel, The Evil Eye (1958) for the ...
Kastel, Warren
Ziff-Davis House Name used on magazine stories by Chester S Geier and possibly others 1948-1950, and by Robert Silverberg in 1957. According to Geier, "Kastel" began as a pseudonym which he used for collaborations with his friend William L Hamling. [JC/MA] links / ...
Battlestar Galactica
1. US tv series (1978-1979). Universal Television/ABC-TV. Created by Glen A Larson, also executive producer. Producers included John Dykstra and Don Bellisario; main writers Larson and Bellisario; directors included Christian Nyby II and Dan Haller. One season only, beginning with a 150-minute pilot, followed by 19 50-minute episodes, including three two-episode stories, plus one 100-minute episode. Colour. / Perhaps the least likeable of all ...
Hur, Anton
(1981- ) Swedish-born translator and author, in South Korea from early childhood; active from around 2018 as a translator, most usually from Korean to English. He is of sf interest for his first novel, Toward Eternity (2024), a tale constructed as a series of variously authored notebooks beginning in the Near Future, the first contributor to the sequence being Yonghun, a cancer patient whose cells have been completely replaced ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...