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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Eckert, Allan W
(1931-2011) US television writer – he is credited with over 200 scripts for the nonfiction animal series, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1963-1988), for which he won an Emmy Award – and author, mainly of works of natural history, for which he has seven times been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and of fiction in various genres; his first novel, The Great Auk: A Novel (1963), containing no elements of the fantastic. He began to published work of genre ...
Fate/Extra Last Encore
Japanese animated tv series (2018). Shaft; Aniplex; Marvelous. Directed by Akiyuki Shinbo and Yukihiro Miyamoto. Written primarily by Kinoko Nasu. Character design by Hiroki Yamamura and Masaaki Takiyama. Music by Satoru Kōsaki. Voice cast includes Atsushi Abe and Sakura Tange. Thirteen 24-minute episodes. Colour. / The story is set in the Near Future (circa 2030) of an ...
Reid, Ruthanne
(? - ) US author whose Science Fantasy novel The Sundered (2012) is set on a planet, which the reader suspects may well be a deeply Ruined Earth, nearly covered by poisonous black water where creatures with Magic powers live. The Ecology of this world is inimical to its surviving human population, as is discovered. ...
Bateman, Robert
(1922-1973) UK author, primarily involved in radio and television work. It is tentatively presumed that the three books here described are by this Robert Bateman (there are several). His version of The Hands of Orlac (1961) novelizes the 1960 film, which is based with some remoteness on the original novel, Les mains d'Orlac (15 May-12 July 1920 L'Intransigeant; 1921; trans as The Hands of Orlac 1929; new trans 1981) by Maurice ...
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 ...