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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 ...
Greene, Joseph
(1914-1990) US author, editor and author for Comics from the late 1930s, scripting various series, including (it has been claimed) various DC Comics Superhero productions such as Superman and Wonder Woman; much of his work was either anonymous, or under variations of his own name or pseudonyms such as Joe Green, Joseph Lawrence, ...
Aickman, Robert
(1914-1981) UK journalist,editor, campaigner and author almost none of whose significant work – the tales he often referred to in subtitles and various comments as "Strange Stories" – remotely resembles sf, though much of it can be described as Fantastika. The power of this work derives from a consummate avoidance of any assured generic status; though many of his tales can be approached as ghost stories (even when no ghost, or any other ...
Hades Project Zeorymer
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) series (1988-1990; vt Meiou Project Zeorymer; vt Project Zeorymer; vt Zeoraima – Project Hades). AIC and Artmic. Based on the Manga of the same name by Yoshiki Takaya (writing as Chimi Morio). Directed by Toshihiro Hirano. Written by Shō Aikawa. Voice cast includes Chieko Honda, Toshihiko Seki and Mayumi Shou. Four episodes of circa 28 minutes. Colour. / ...
Emmons, Cai
(1951-2023) US playwright and author, most of whose work was nonfantastic, though the disruptions of familial emplacedness that featured throughout her work continued to structure her late work, the exercises in planet-facing Fantastika that started with the very Near Future Weather Woman sequence beginning with Weather Woman (2018). The protagonist of the tale discovers that, at a time of crisis due to ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...