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Murray, Will
Working name of US author William Patrick Murray (1953-2026), who showed an interest throughout his career in Superheroes of the Pulp tradition (on which he was a known authority) such as Doc Savage, about which figure he wrote the nonfiction Secrets of Doc Savage (1981 chap). In this context he had been literary agent for Lester Dent's estate since 1979. ...
Mama Wa Shōgaku Yon-Nensei
["Mama Is a 4th Grader"] Japanese animated tv series (1992). Sunrise, NTV, AsatsuDK, Vap. Directed by Shūji Iuchi. Written by Osamu Nakamura, Tetsuko Watanabe, Yumi Kageyama et al. Cast includes Kazue Ikura, Satomi Kōrogi and Riyoko Yoshida. 51 episodes of 25 minutes. Colour. / An accident in the year 2007 sends the infant Mirai ["Future"] through a Timeslip to 1992, where she is raised by her mother's younger self. Early episodes play up the ...
Adler, Allen
(1916-1964) US author, mostly for films, co-author of the story used as the basis for the film Forbidden Planet (1956), although he had nothing to do with the novelization Forbidden Planet (1956) by Philip MacDonald writing as by W J Stuart. Allen's only sf novel Mach 1: A Story of the Planet Ionus (1957; vt Terror on Planet Ionus 1966), set like the film on a planet, in ...
Addison, Linda D
(1952- ) US anthologist, poet and author, active from the 1990s, who began to publish prose works of genre interest with "Night of the Living Dead" in Outer Darkness Annual for Fall 1995, and poetry with "Animated Objects" in Tales of the Unanticipated for Fall/Winter 1995; frequent winner of the Bram Stoker Award (see Awards) for her horror fiction, and made SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic ...
Friel, Arthur O
(1885-1959) US author and explorer, most of whose work appeared in Pulp magazines, including the McKay, Knowlton and Ryan sequence of Lost Race tales set in South America and featuring the exploits of Americans, who eventually establish a kingdom somewhere close to Peru, their central base being in ancient ruins left by a mysterious white race. Those published as books – The Pathless Trail (10 October-10 November 1921 ...
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 ...