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Mr

To avoid confusion over variant spellings, entries whose first word is "Mr" are listed as if that title were spelt out in full as "Mister". [JC/PN]

Australian tv series (2016). Porchlight Films/Sweet Potato Films. Created by Victoria Madden and Vincent Sheehan. Written by Victoria Madden, with Louise Fox, Andrew Knight and Cate Shortland. Directed by Tony Krawitz and Rowan Woods. Continuing cast (usually all 8 episodes) includes Miranda Bennett, Elizabeth Debicki, Suzi Dougherty, Damon Garneau, Damien Garvey, Sacha Horler, Adam Kanneglesser, Matthew Le Nevez, Kevin MacIsaac, Henry Nixon, Anthony ...

Strick, Philip

(1939-2006) UK sf and film critic, anthologist, teacher, and director of a film library. In 1969 he initiated one of the first adult evening classes in sf in the UK, sponsored by the University of London at the City Literary Institute (see SF in the Classroom), which continued until 1992 under various tutors including John Clute, Colin Greenland, Peter ...

Benson, Gordon, Jr

(1936-1996) US bookseller, publisher and bibliographer who released the first of his many solo Bibliographies of sf figures in approximately 1980; early bibliographies such as that of Jack Williamson (?1980 chap) were privately published from Albuquerque, New Mexico, with no designated publisher imprint. In 1983 he moved into partnership with UK bibliographer Phil ...

Pepper, Bob

(1938-2019) US artist and illustrator, who also signed his work as Robert Pepper. He studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California before moving to New York in the 1960s to work as a commercial artist. After working on several record album covers, his first fantasy book cover was for a Dell compilation of Saki's work titled Incredible Tales (coll 1966), but his most significant early work was with ...

Nicholls, Peter

(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book ...