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Minot, Stephen
(1927-2010) US academic and author whose Chill of Dusk (1964) is a Ruined Earth tale set a several decades after a nuclear Holocaust, in a small Maine community increasing beset by invading barbarians, including a tribe of sun worshippers (see Religion) who sacrifice the protagonist's daughter. His attempts to preserve the records of prewar civilization, and the values that created that ...
Harris, Raymond
(1953- ) US author who began publishing sf with his first novel, The Broken Worlds (1986), an attractive picaresque adventure. Shadows of the White Sun (1988) seems at first assessment almost too complex – it is set in a Far-Future solar system dominated by revenant star-sailors whose descendants occupy seven Space Habitats called the Hypaethra, orbiting the Sun, while a ...
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
US animated tv series (2004-2009). Cartoon Network Studios. Created by Craig McCracken. Directors include Robert Alvarez, Robert Cullen, Craig McCracken, Randy Myers and Eric Pringle. Writers include Darrick Bachman, Lauren Faust, Craig Lewis and Tim McKeon. Voice cast includes Grey DeLisle, Keith Ferguson, Tom Kane, Sean Marquette. 79 22-minute episodes and eighteen shorts. Colour. / Aged eight, Mac (Marquette) is getting too old to have an ...
Morphett, Tony
(1938-2018) Australian screenwriter and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Litterbug" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from July 1969, and who co-wrote The Last Wave (1977), co-written and directed by Peter Weir, whose last image – of a vast wave from the deeps of the ocean about to flood Australia – has become famous. Morphett's books of ...
Hanifin, John M
(? -? ) US author, whose reported death circa 1898 seems unlikely as manuscripts in his name were being submitted for publication five years later; his Lost Race novel, The Blind Men and the Devil (1891) as by Phineas, describes the experiences of a married couple who, mistaken for dead, are dumped into a river and discover an Underground world inhabited by a blind race. ...
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 ...