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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Film (1975). Warner Bros. Directed by Michael Anderson. Written by George Pal and Joseph Morheim, based on The Man of Bronze: Doc Savage and his Pals in a Novel of Unusual Adventure (March 1933 Doc Savage magazine; 1933) by Lester Dent writing as Kenneth Robeson. Cast includes Ron Ely and Paul ...
Bergonzi, Bernard
(1929-2016) UK literary academic, critic and poet, latterly Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Warwick, who began to publish essays of genre interest with "The Publication of The Time Machine, 1894-1895" (February 1960 Review of English Studies) and "The Time Machine: An Ironic Myth" (December 1960 Critical Quarterly). His many nonfiction works include a useful examination of the sf or Scientific Romances of H G ...
Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1987). AIC, Artmic. Directed and written by Shinji Aramaki. Voice cast includes Youko Asagami, Yukiko Ishida, Yasunori Matsumoto and Kazuyuki Sogabe. 42 minutes. Colour. / Wearing Powered Armour, for which she designed the software, Ellie Kusumoto (Asagami) defeats a group of remote-controlled US tanks in the hope of selling it to their military. Afterwards the vehicle transporting ...
Raymond, Ben
(? - ) US author of an sf novel, The Miracle of the Foomtra (1968), which involves Sex. [JC]
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 ...