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von Däniken, Erich
(1935-2026) Swiss author of a series of purportedly nonfiction books, beginning with Erinnerungen an die Zukunft (1968; trans Michael Heron as Chariots of the Gods? 1969), which, based on a mass of often suspect and internally inconsistent data, argues that the Earth was visited by at least one Alien spacefaring race before and at the dawn of historical time; thus, for example, the Great Pyramid of ...
Adams, Scott
(1957-2026) US author and cartoonist best known for the Dilbert strip published from 1989, which when at its best superbly (in terms of concept and accuracy of Satire rather than quality of drawing) satirized contemporary office life and corporate incompetence. As with most ambitious modern comic strips, it segues frequently into sf and fantasy tropes – such as Robot office workers, wish-fulfilling ...
Pollack, Rachel
(1945-2023) US author, resident in the Netherlands 1973-1990, subsequently in America, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Pandora's Bust" as by Richard A Pollack in New Worlds Quarterly 2 (anth 1971 ) edited by Michael Moorcock (see also New Worlds). Her focus as a teller of tales moved steadily away from Genre SF, though her first novel, Golden Vanity ...
Weybright, Victor
(1903-1978) American publisher who co-founded New American Library in 1948 and served for many years as chairman, retiring in 1966. In 1967 he and his stepson, Truman Talley (1925-2013) – who had long served as an editor at NAL – founded Weybright and Talley, which during its brief period of activity published a number of sf novels. [GF]
Legend of Korra, The
US animated tv series (2012-2014). Nickelodeon. Created by/executive producers: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko. Writers: Michael Dante DiMartino, Joshua Hamilton, Tim Hedrick, Bryan Konietzko, Katie Mattila. Directors include Ian Graham, Colin Heck, Ki Hyun Ryu, Joaquim Dos Santos and Melchior Zwyer. Voice cast includes Steve Blum, P J Byrne, David Faustino, Seychelle Gabriel, Anne Heche, John Michael Higgins, Daniel Dae Kim, Henry Rollins, Adrian LaTourelle, Stephanie Sheh, ...
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 ...