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Watt-Evans, Lawrence
Working name of US author Lawrence Watt Evans (1954- ), who began publishing sf in 1975 with "Paranoid Fantasy #1" for American Atheist as Evans, creating his current hyphenated surname in 1979 (at the request of Lester del Rey) to distinguish himself from another Lawrence Evans; he has also written stores as by Walter Vance Awsten and Ties as by Nathan Archer (see Checklist). He has constructed several ...
Midnight Sky, The
Film (2020). Netflix and Anonymous Content present a Smokehouse Pictures, Syndicate Entertainment and Truenorth Productions production. Directed by George Clooney. Written by Mark L Smith, based on Good Morning, Midnight (2016) by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Cast includes Tiffany Boone, Kyle Chandler, George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Ethan Peck and Caoilinn Springall. 122 minutes. Colour. / An Arctic ...
Brom
Working name of American artist Gerald Brom (1965- ). Growing up in the family of a United States Army pilot, the young Brom lived in a number of locations and concluded his formal education by graduating from high school in Frankfurt, Germany. The self-trained Brom first worked in commercial art before joining TSR in 1989, contributing art to the Dungeons and Dragons game and painting book covers, with particular attention to developing imagery for the Dungeons and ...
Powerpuff Girls, The
US animated tv series (1998-2005). Hanna-Barbera Cartoons (1998-2001); Cartoon Network Studios (2002-2005). Created by Craig McCracken. Directors include John McIntyre, Craig McCracken, Randy Myers and Genndy Tartakovsky. Writers include John McIntyre, Amy Keating Rogers and Chris Savino. Voice cast includes Catherine Cavadini, Elizabeth Daily, Roger L. Jackson, Tom Kane, Tom ...
Murdock, M S
(1947- ) US author who began writing sf with a Star Trek tie, Web of the Romulans (1983), and who later continued in much the same vein with her two Buck Rogers sequences: the Buck Rogers Martian Wars Trilogy beginning with Buck Rogers: Rebellion 2456 (1989) and one title contributed to the Buck Rogers Inner Planets Trilogy: ...
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, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its listing of Pseudonyms. ...