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Montgomery, R A
(1936-2014) US editor and author who also wrote as by Robert Mountain, first known for his contributions to the Choose Your Own Adventure sequence of non-computer-based Hypertext tales for the Young Adult market [see Checklist]; as an editor at Vermont Crossroads Press he published the first volume by Edward Packard under the series title ...
Swierczynski, Duane
(1972- ) US journalist, Comics writer and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Life during Death" in Dark Planet for 6 July 1998. He has almost exclusively concentrated on nonfiction, mostly on criminals and criminality, a focus that dominates his fiction, including the Charlie Hardie sequence beginning with Fun and Games (2011) [none of this listed below]. Between 2007 and 2017 he was active in ...
Robert, Katee
(1987- ) US author, almost exclusively of fantasy with romance elements; they also write as by Kat Taylor [these titles are not listed below]. Robert is of sf interest for the Dark Olympus sequence beginning with Neon Gods (2021), set in an abstractly distant-Near-Future Dystopian City where it is possible to channel Avatars of Greek ...
Tor [comic]
US Comic (1954). Three issues (numbered #3-#5). St. John Publishing Corp. Scripts and most of the artwork by Joe Kubert. Each issue has 2-3 Tor and 1 Danny Dreams strip, a 2 page Tor text story and 2 one-page non-fiction pieces on Dinosaurs. Halfway through #3 two of the comic's creators, Joe Kubert and editor Norman Maurer, appear in a brief strip to assuage concern that either blasphemy or scientific inaccuracy is ...
Romero, John
(1967- ) US Game designer whose first published work was Scout Search (1984 Capitol Ideas Software, AppleII), a simple two-dimensional game in which the player must protect cub scouts from a grizzly bear. His fame, however, rests on the early games developed by id Software, the company he founded in 1991 with the artist Adrian Carmack, the game designer Tom Hall and the highly talented computer programmer John Carmack (who was ...
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 ...