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Kroll, Steven
(1941-2011) US historian, publisher's editor and author of nearly a hundred books for young children, whose Space Cats (1979 chap) is Children's SF; its young protagonist Perry encounters and befriends a strange Cat who proves to be an Alien and invites him on a journey to the cat homeworld, where feline factions are at War. The eponym of Otto (1983 chap) is ...
Morales, Alejandro
(1944- ) US academic and author whose Hispanic background is reflected in the language (Spanish) of some of his earlier fiction, and in the overarching focus of all his work, which is the complex interaction amongst peoples – including Native Americans – in Mexico and the American West. Of sf interest is The Rag Doll Plagues (coll of linked stories 1992), featuring three tales about a doctor and a disease that must be comprehended. The third of ...
Jung Inwoo
South Korean electronic musician, artist and filmmaker, who also records under the names Wellsgoodness and Sal Sal. The short film Wunderkammer 10.0 (2022), made in collaboration with artists Soyun Park and Yelim Ki, was created using AI tools and digital scanning technology to create a guide to a City of the future by the titular operating system, which starts to achieve self-awareness as an AI ...
Biheguan Zhuren
["Master of the Jade Lotus Pavilion"] Pseudonym of Jin Zuoli (? -? ), a Chinese author whose first work of genre note Huangjin Shijie ["Golden World"] (1907 Xiaoshuo Lin) imagined Chinese coolies in America resisting a real-world 1894 racial exclusion law by founding a Utopian community. Inspired in part by the fiction of Liang Qichao, he subsequently wrote ...
Infinity [magazine]
UK Media Magazine, current, first issue dated April 2017, letter-sized (A4), stapled, continuously numbered, on slick paper throughout, published monthly. / Infinity is published by Ghoulish Publishing Ltd and has been edited since its launch by Allan Bryce. The magazine does not publish fiction, and concentrates on nostalgic articles about cult Cinema and Television, some genre examples ...
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 ...