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Howard, Linda
Pseudonym of US author Linda S Howington (1950- ) of an sf tale, Killing Time (2005) – not to be confused with novels with the same title Thomas Berger, Donald Westlake and others – in which a time capsule, not to be opened until 2085, is in fact opened in 2005, with Near Future thriller implications, as violent deaths ensue. [JC]
Madhouse
Japanese animation studio, based in Nakano, Tokyo and founded in 1972 by Osamu Dezaki, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Masao Maruyama and Rintaro (real name Shigeyuki Hayashi, confused by some sources with his brother Masayuki Hayashi), who were former employees of Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production studio (aka Mushi Pro). In 2004 the studio became a subsidiary of the Index Corporation; then, from 2011, of Nippon TV. / Madhouse's ...
Rammellzee
(1960-2010) US multi-disciplinary artist whose work covered performance art, rap, graffiti, painting, sculptor and comics. He drew on history, science, sf and popular culture to shape a mythology to inspire his artwork. An African-American/Italian who kept his real name secret, Rammellzee was part of New York's burgeoning rap and graffiti culture as it evolved in the late seventies, becoming a member of the city's underground art scene – which included the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat, ...
Hartshorne, Henry
(1823-1897) US physician and author whose sf novella 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century (1881 chap) describes the Near Future in generally Utopian terms; America has solved its racial problems (see Race in SF), and solved other problems as well, including Pollution, through the application of high Technology. Perhaps ...
McKinney, Chris
(1973- ) US teacher and author, active in both capacities from before 2000. His first novel, Tattoo (1999), is nonfantastic. He is of sf interest for some of the stories assembled in The Lunacy Machine: Twisted Tales of Unfortunate Times (coll 2007), and for the Water City sequence beginning with Midnight, Water City (2021), set in a distant Near-Future ...
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 ...