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Lourie, Richard
(1940- ) US translator and author whose Near Future sf novel, Zero Gravity (1987), spoofs the Cold War (already beginning to fade in 1987) as two poets are sent to the Moon on conflicting cultural missions, but they kick their heels up and defect. [JC]
Hemry, John G
(1956- ) US author best known for his Military SF sequences. The Stark series, beginning with Starks' War (2000) and ending with Stark's Crusade (2002), features near space conflict in the Near Future. The Paul Sinclair series, beginning with A Just Determination (2003) and ending with Against All Enemies (2006), features an adept legal ...
Space Invaders
Videogame (1978). Taito. Designed by Toshihiro Nishikado. Platforms: Arcade, Others. / Space Invaders was by no means the first Videogame, but it was the first to achieve worldwide commercial success. The early versions only worked on expensive arcade machines, and its popularity helped foster the rapid growth of video arcades in the 1980s. The basic concept, in which wave after wave of hostile aliens move down the ...
Frost, Gregory
(1951- ) US author who has been heavily involved in writers' workshops including Clarion and who began publishing sf with "In the Sunken Museum" for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981; most of his work for a decade was governed by its fantasy tone, including his first novel, Lyrec (1984), which does evoke ...
Rotsler Award
Annual juried award for life achievement in Fanzine art, named for William (Bill) Rotsler in his capacity as a much-loved and highly prolific fan artist. Presented since 1998, the award is sponsored by SCIFI, the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests, and is normally announced at the annual Los Angeles Convention Loscon; it currently comes with a $300 honorarium. / The inaugural ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...