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Bishop, K J
(1972- ) Australian author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Art of Dying" for Aurealis in 1997, which with other stories was assembled as That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote (coll 2012). She came into sudden recognition with her first novel, The Etched City (2003; rev 2004), a tale whose venue shares with the earlier work of M John Harrison a ...
Andromeda Conquest
Videogame (1982). Avalon Hill. Designed by David Peterson. Platforms: AppleII, Atari8. C64, DOS, PET, TRS80. / Andromeda Conquest is a game of turn-based interstellar warfare which uses text menus and somewhat rudimentary two-dimensional displays to represent conflict between various Galactic Empires. Each player begins as absolute ruler of a species which has recently invented a ...
Holmberg, John-Henri
(1949- ) Swedish editor, translator and critic. An sf reader since the age of six, Holmberg became active in Swedish fandom at thirteen, during the following 25 years publishing some 300 issues of Fanzines, chairing sf clubs and several Conventions and in 1977 starting the first sf bookstore in Sweden. For his fan activities, he received the international Big Heart ...
Crowder, Herbert
(1925-2022) US MIT graduate who served in World War Two and is the author of three Technothrillers of some sf interest: Ambush at Osirak (1988), with a threatened Israeli attack on a nuclear reactor installation (see Power Sources) in Iraq, which country has been armed with a Russian super-Weapon; Weatherhawk (1990), which involves ...
Adventures into Darkness
US Comic (1952-1954). Standard Comics. 10 issues (numbered #5-#14). Artists include Gene Fawcette, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, George Roussos, Mike Sekowsky and Alex Toth. Scriptwriters include Jack Katz, Irwin Shapiro and Bill Woolfolk. 36 pages, each issue usually containing four longer strips, plus a few shorter ones (some claiming to be non-fiction, such as an account from 1348 of "sulphurous fire" bursting from the ground at ...
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 ...