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Sabikui Bisco
Japanese Anime tv series (2022; vt Rust-Eater Bisco). Oz. Based on the Light Novel by Shinji Cobkubo. Directed by Atsushi Itagaki. Written by Sadayuki Murai. Voice cast includes Natsuki Hanae, Reina Kondō, Shirō Saitō, Ryōta Suzuki, Miyu Tomita and Kenjiro Tsuda. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / After an explosion leaves Tokyo a crater surrounded by ruins and desert (see ...
Benton, Mike
(? - ) US Comics authority who wrote the Taylor History of Comics nonfiction series for the Taylor Publishing Company in the 1990s. Though some are relatively brief at 144-150pp, these heavily illustrated works contain considerable information on the history of the various genres and creators of comics in the US during most of the twentieth century. Horror Comics: The Illustrated History (1991) and ...
Brooks, Terry
(1944- ) US lawyer and author who began to publish work of genre interest with The Sword of Shannara (1977), a heavily Tolkien-influenced Fantasy (as Brooks has freely acknowledged) which inaugurated both the Ballantine/Del Rey Books imprint and the lengthy, bestselling Shannara sequence for which Brooks is best known; ...
Avenger, The
Pulp Magazine published by Street & Smith for 24 issues, September 1939 to September 1942. Publication was monthly to July 1940, then bimonthly to the end. Edited by John Nanovic. / Each issue of The Avenger featured a short novel by Paul Ernst writing as Kenneth Robeson, plus short ...
Ives, Franklin Titus
(1828-1910) US businessman and author whose book, The Hollow Earth (1904), is an unfictionalized essay on the concept of the Hollow Earth as argued by John Cleves Symmes. [JC]
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 ...