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Wetanson, Burt
Working name of US screenwriter and author Burton R Wetanson (1934- ), who collaborated with Thomas Hoobler (who see for details) on the Hunters sequence comprising The Hunters (1978) and The Treasure Hunters (1983). [JC]
X-Com
Videogame series (from 1994). Mythos Games (MG). Designed by Julian Gollop. / UFO: Enemy Unknown (1994 MG, CD32, DOS; 1995 Amiga, PS1; 1998 Win; vt X-COM: UFO Defense US) designed by Julian Gollop, the first X-COM game, puts a single player in the position of leading Earth's defence against marauding Aliens. This background is clearly influenced by the UK television series UFO ...
Cole, Gina
(1960- ) New Zealand lawyer and author, active in the latter capacity after 2010, creator of the term pasifikafuturism, which is to say sf (and Fantastika in general) expressive of understandings and experience of the nature and fate of the world as seen through the eyes of the original inhabitants of Pacifica from an anti-Imperialist perspective. Her thesis on this subject, ...
Norris, Frank
(1907-1967) US editor and author of an sf Satire, Nutro 29: A Romance (1950), in which the Invention of a Food Pill, which eliminates any need to treat feeding the world as subject to considerations of scarcity, is received coldly by those in power. He should not be confused with the author Frank Norris (1870-1902). [JC]
Alexander, David M
(1945- ) US lawyer and author who writes mysteries as David Grace, and whose first sf novel, The Chocolate Spy (1978), concerns the creation of an organic Computer using cloned braincells (see Clones). His second, Fane (1981), set on a planet whose electromagnetic configurations permit the controlled use of Magic, describes an inimical attempt to augment these ...
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 reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...