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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the circumambient galactic Deep, in which very few stars ...
Germany since 1990
This entry describes the state of sf in Germany from the year 1990 onward. At present there are separate entries in this encyclopedia for Germany before 1990 (including East Germany) and Austria. These are to be restructured in the near future and joined by a more extensive entry on sf in {East Germany}. / Science fiction in the post-reunification Germany is still dominated by translations of the works of American and British authors. ...
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association
A professional guild created in 1965 as Science Fiction Writers of America, to inform sf writers on matters of professional interest, to promote their professional welfare, and to help them deal effectively with publishers, agents, editors and anthologists; in 1992 (see below) it was renamed the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America while retaining the initial SFWA; in March 2022 it was announced that these same initials would henceforth stand for the more global Science Fiction and ...
Kinks, The
Long-lived and very popular UK rock band formed in London in 1963 by the Davies brothers: vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Ray (1944- ) and guitarist Dave (1947- ). Most of Ray's songs are very British observations on everyday life, both whimsical and satirical. Their most notable sf lyric is "Supersonic Rocket Ship" (1972), released as a single and on the album Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972). Telling a story of a ...
Crest of the Stars
Japanese animated tv series (original title Seikai no Monshō). Produced by Sunrise; directed by Yasuchika Nagaoka; based on the Seikai ["Star World"] novels of Hiroyuki Morioka. Crest of the Stars (1999, 13 episodes) adapts Morioka's Crest (1996) trilogy. It was followed by Banner of the Stars I (2000, 13 episodes), Banner II (2001, 10 episodes), and ...
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 ...