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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 ...
Future Cop [tv]
US tv series (1976-1977). Paramount Studios, ABC Television network. Produced by Everett Chambers. Directors included Robert Douglas, Earl Bellamy and Vincent McEveety. Scriptwriters included Ken Kolb, Harold Livingston and Mann Rubin. Cast includes John Amos, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Shannon and Irene Tsu. Eight 50-minute episodes. Colour. / Future Cop was a remake of the previous season's comedy on the same subject, ...
Stilson, Charles B
(1880-1932) US journalist and editor, active in the early decades of the century with serialized novels and some stories for the Frank A Munsey magazines. His Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired sf/fantasy trilogy (see also Tarzan) – Polaris of the Snows (18 December 1915-1 January 1916 All-Story as Polaris – of the Snows; 1965), ...
Harding, Ellison
(1883-1952) US businessman and author whose The Demetrian (1907; vt The Woman Who Vowed 1908) is a Utopia set about two years in the future. [JC]
Amobi, Chino
(1984- ) US musician, author and artist, of Nigerian descent, best known for his politically engaged, maximalist electronic music collages, and as co-founder of the short-lived but influential record label and musicians' collective NON Worldwide. His ongoing project Eroica takes various forms across different media, beginning with the Near-Future, Cyberpunk-inflected novel Eroica (2020), ...
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 ...