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Jones, Alice Eleanor
Working name of US academic and author Alice Eleanor Nearing (1916-1981), married to Homer Nearing Jr, whose surname she adopted legally. She began to publish work of genre interest with "Life, Incorporated" in Fantastic Universe for April 1955, and remained active for the next decade, though most of her work was nonfantastic, including one novel-length tale, "Strange Courtship" (5 March Redbook), which did not ...
Earthworm Jim
US animated tv series (1995-1996). AKOM, Flextech Television Limited, Universal Animation Studios. Created by Doug TenNapel, based on the 1994 platform game (see Videogames) of the same name. Directors include Pam Garry, Graham Morris, Sue Peters and Bill Reed. Most episodes written by Doug Langdale. Voice cast includes Charlie Adler, Jeff Bennett, Dan Castellaneta, Jim Cummings, Edward Hibbert, Andrea Martin and Kath Soucie. Twenty-three 21 minute episodes. ...
Williams, Arthur
(? -? ) US author of one of several similarly titled responses to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888). Williams's Looking Forward (1925) posits a cooperate democratic socialist Utopia. [JC]
New Worlds
Long the leading UK sf magazine (and an Original-Anthology series for two sections of its chequered career), publishing 222 issues during a span of 51 years ([July] 1946-August 1997), but including a 12-year hiatus. New Worlds, though it had volume numbers up to #177, has always been numbered consecutively (in its magazine incarnations); the first five were undated. / New Worlds was a development from a pre-World War Two ...
Whiteside, Edward
(? - ) US author of the Near Future A Warning from Mars (1948 chap), set on Mars, here known as Amkonia, where free enterprise has flourished until a New-Deal-like socialist Dystopia takes over and ruins the planet; the Satire is heavy, and an inserted history of freed slaves, here known as Boogaloos, is intensely unpleasant. ...
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 ...