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Go, Go, Loser Ranger!
Japanese animated tv series (2024; original title Sentai Daishikkaku). Yostar Pictures. Based on the Manga by Negi Haruba. Directed by Keiichi Sato. Written by Keiichirō Ōchi. Voice cast includes Go Inoue, Daishi Kajita, Yuichi Nakamura, Yūsuke Kobayashi, M.A.O, Kensho Ono, Kohsuke Toriumi and Yumika Yano. Twelve 24 minute episodes. Colour. / We are told of "The gigantic floating fortress that appeared out of ...
Allston, Aaron
(1960-2014) US author and Role Playing Game designer who published many nonfiction pieces in this area, was editor of Space Gamer magazine 1982-1983, and co-designed the games Justice, Inc (1984) and The Savage Empire (1990) (see Worlds of Ultima). Several though not all of his novels are tied to the Star Wars universe ...
Incredible Hulk, The
1. US tv series (1977-1982). Universal/CBS-TV. Created by Kenneth Johnson (executive producer). Producers included Nicholas Corea, James D Parriott, Charles Bowman, Bob Sherman. Directors included Johnson, Bowman, Kenneth Gilbert, Jeffrey Hayden, Reza Badiyi, Jack Colvin. Writers included Johnson, Parriott, Corea, Karen Harris and Jill Sherman, Richard Christian Matheson. Cast includes Bill Bixby, ...
Phillips, Roland Ashford
(1884-1969) US author, who worked under his own name and some unidentified pseudonyms; of sf interest is Golden Isle (1925), featuring a yacht which converts into a submarine (see Inventions), and which carries its owners to a Caribbean Island at the heart of which a Lost World is discovered. [JC]
Gallico, Paul
(1897-1976) US journalist, screenwriter and author, in active service during World War One; sports editor for the New York Daily News for twelve years beginning in 1923. He is known mainly for such works outside the sf field as The Snow Goose (9 November 1940 Saturday Evening Post; exp 1941 chap; vt The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk 1941 chap), a sentimental novella extremely popular ...
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 ...