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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Koch, Gini
Pseudonym of US author Jeanne Cook (1963- ), who also writes as Jemma Chase, Anita Ensal, G J Koch and J C Koch. She began to publish work of genre interest with "Road Rage" as by J C Koch in Arkham Tales: A Magazine of Weird Fiction for May 2009. Her best known and most extensive work is the ongoing Alien or Kitty Katt series opening with Touched by an Alien (2010). These mingle action-adventure ...
Tassi, Paul
(? - ) US journalist and author whose Earthborn Trilogy beginning with The Last Exodus (2015), which begins in a Ruined Earth California whose devastated state seems to have been caused not primarily by Climate Change but by an Alien Invasion. The narrative moves from a ...
Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1996). Original title Tokumu Sentai Shainzuman. Based on the Manga by Kaimu Tachibana. Production I.G. Directed by Shinya Sadamitsu. Written by Hideki Sonoda. Voice cast includes Yasunori Matsumoto, Ryoko Sakakibara, Nozomu Sasaki, Toshihiko Seki and Hekiru Shiina. Two 30-minute episodes. Colour. / This is an affectionate Parody of ...
Holden, Inez
(1903-1974) UK journalist and author, active from the early 1920s; around 1940, briefly George Orwell's partner. In 1941 she rented a garage flat from H G Wells, who evicted her when she introduced him to Orwell, soon after the publication of the latter's "Wells, Hitler and the World State" (August 1941 Horizon). She is of sf interest for Born Old, Died Young (1932), a ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...