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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Space Science Fiction Magazine
US Digest-size magazine. Two issues, Spring and August 1957, published by the Republic Features Syndicate; edited by Lyle Kenyon Engel, with much editorial work, uncredited, by Michael Avallone. Despite featuring such names as Arthur C Clarke, Raymond F Jones, Mack Reynolds and Jack ...
Ole Luk-Oie
The best-known pseudonym of India-born UK military thinker and author Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1868-1951), who served in various capacities in the UK army from 1888 until he retired in 1919 with the rank of Major-General. His first book, The Defence of Duffer's Drift: A Few Experiences in Field Defence for Detached Posts Which May Prove Useful in Our Next War (1904 chap) as by Backsight Forethought, is couched as a sequence of fantasticated dreams in which Lieutenant Forethought ...
Cosmos: War of the Planets
Italian film (1977; original title Anno Zero – Guerra Nello Spazio; vt War of the Planets; vt Year Zero – War in Space). Nais Film. Directed by Alfonso Brescia. Written by Alfonso Brescia (as Al Bradley) and Aldo Crudo (as Al Crydo), plus the uncredited Maxim Lo Jacono and Jacob Macchi. Cast includes John Richardson. 89 minutes. Colour. / A lump of rock flung from a "stellar explosion" is on collision course with a ...
Anastacia-Renée
Preferred rendering of the name of US lecturer, podcaster, poet and author (? - ), who is listed as having published early work as by Anastasha Renée, including The Awakening: Feel the Heat (2014), a Young Adult Vampire novel. She is of sf interest for Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere (coll of linked poems 2024) (see Poetry), a ...
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 ...