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McNeill, Graham
(?1971- ) Scottish designer of Games (see Game Design) and Toys and author of numerous Ties to various domains of the Warhammer Wargame universe. His contributions to Warhammer 40,000 comprise at least two subseries, Warhammer 40,000: The Ultramarines, beginning with ...
Rao Zhonghua
(1933-2010) Chinese author and editor at the Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House, in which capacity he edited journals on metallurgy and, the million-selling Kexue Huabao ["Science Pictorial"] from 1972-1986. A great popularizer of science, in the mode of a Chinese Isaac Asimov, he also wrote many book reviews that helped to push and define the sf genre in China. He played a key role in the flowering of Chinese sf ...
Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour, The
Animated tv series (1977-1978). Filmation Associates for CBS-TV. Executive Producers: Norm Prescott and Lou Scheimer. Directors, writers unknown. Cast includes Robert Ridgley, Burt Ward and Adam West. Based on characters created by Bob Kane, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Uncertain number of 60-minute episodes. Colour. / The second seasons of both Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle ...
Fitzpatrick, Ernest Hugh
(1863-1933) US doctor, poet and author, whose first novel with sf content, The Marshal Duke of Denver; Or, the Labor Revolution of 1920 (1895) as by Hugo Barnaby, uninterestingly inveighs against the rise of unions; and whose second, The Coming Conflict of Nations; Or, the Japanese-American War (1909), is a Future War tale in which Japan – incensed at American treatment of Japanese immigrants – invades America, but is ...
Millennium
Film (1989). First Millennium Partnership/Gladden Entertainment. Directed by Michael Anderson. Written by John Varley, based on his "Air Raid" (Spring 1977 Asimov's) as by Herb Boehm. Cast includes Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd and Daniel J Travanti. 105 minutes. Colour. / Commando teams making Time-Travel raids from the future steal people from doomed ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book ...