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Cargill, C Robert
(1975- ) US film critic, screenwriter and author whose first series, the Dreams and Shadows sequence beginning with Dreams and Shadows (2013), is set in a fantasy world whose protagonists are suffering from Amnesia, which blocks them from the Magic-filled realm of their past. He is of sf interest for Sea of Rust (2017), a broad-gauge Ruined-Earth ...
Centaurworld
US animated online tv series (2021). Netflix. Created by Megan Nicole Dong. Directors include Jen Bennett, Christina Manrique, Jeremy Polgar and Katie Shanahan. Writers include Jen Bardekoff, Todd Casey, Amalia Levari and Minty Lewis. Voice cast includes Parvesh Cheena, Chris Diamantopoulos, Megan Nicole Dong, Kimiko Glenn, Megan Hilty, Brian d'Arcy James, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessie Mueller, Josh Radnor and Lea Salonga. Eighteen episodes of circa 26 minutes, except for one of ...
Martin, Les
Working name of US author Lester Martin Schulman (1934- ), whose work consists almost exclusively of Ties, most of these being contributions for younger readers to the X-Files universe, beginning with X Marks the Spot (1995) in the X-Files Young Readers sub-series. Martin has done similar work for the Indiana Jones universe (see ...
Cook, Glen
(1944- ) US author who began his sf career with orthodox stories like his first, "Song from a Forgotten Hill" for Clarion (anth 1971), edited by Robin Scott Wilson, and with the sf novel The Heirs of Babylon (1972), in which an authoritarian religious government takes over in the Post-Holocaust era. However, he soon became best known for his high ...
Prucher, Jeff
(1971- ) US freelance lexicographer best known for Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction (2007), the first historical dictionary of words originating in sf, plus citations and bibliographic information. Coverage includes not only the many Genre SF neologisms but critical Terminology and Fan Language. This pioneering reference book won the 2008 ...
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 ...