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McWilliams, Kelly
(circa 1989- ) US author whose second novel, the Young Adult Agnes at the End of the World (2020), follows its protagonist from her upbringing, in a Near Future Dystopian Keep-like enclave dominated by a fundamentalist cleric (see Religion), into the larger world beyond, which seems about to succumb to a ...
Follett, James
(1939-2021) UK author of fiction and technical material, not to be confused with his cousin, Ken Follett. Some of his early sf work was created for BBC TV and BBC Radio, including The Light of a Thousand Suns (1974) and most famously the Earthsearch sequence, for which he wrote both the radio version – two seasons of ten episodes each, Earthsearch: A Ten-Part Adventure Serial in Time and Space ...
Amazing Man Comics
US Comic (1939-1942). Comic Corporation of America. 22 issues, numbered #5-#26. Artists include Martin Filchock, Lew Glanzman, John Kolb, Sam Glanzman, Frank Thomas and Basil Wolverton. Scriptwriters include Martin Filchock, Lew Glanzman, Allen L Kirby, John Kolb, Frank Thomas and Basil Wolverton. 68 pages per issue, usually with 8-9 long strips and a short text story, plus occasional short fiction and non-fiction strips as filler, the latter including a piece on ...
Albedo One
Irish low-paying magazine of sf, fantasy and horror fiction which appeared irregularly; formerly two or three times per year, latterly once or twice; there was a three-year gap between issue #47 in 2016 and #48 in 2019. First issue, Summer 1993, but undated from issue #4. Originally published by Tachyon Productions, Dublin, Eire, as an A5 booklet, the publisher became Albedo One Productions, Dublin, from issue #12 (1996), and it switched to A4 format. Digital copies in PDF format have also been ...
Gayle, Henry K
(1910-? ) UK-born author (possibly pseudonymous) and civil servant long resident in Canada whose horror/sf novel, Spawn of the Vortex (1957), plays on the nuclear-testing Paranoia of the 1950s. Underwater tests activate a horde of Monsters who advance upon the USA. [JC]
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 ...