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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine
US Prozine, specializing in Utopian sf, published by editor Tristan Evarts. Quarterly, August 2019-current. Its arrival foreshadowed the launch of several publications in the 2020s which expressed similar tiredness with the oversaturation of Dystopias in the genre. Issues focus on stories that incorporate actual science as a means of working towards a better future but make room for explorations of ...
Out of This World
1. US tv series (1952). ABC TV. Produced by Milton Kaye. Narrated by Jackson Beck. One season of 25-minute episodes. Black and white. / Out of this World hovered between sf and lectures on science. In episode three, for example, directed by Milton Kaye and written by Robbie Robertson, we see a young couple in 1993 going to the Moon for a vacation and then telephoning their relations on Earth to give impressions of their holiday. Between these ...
Naval Officer, A
Pseudonym of the unidentified UK author (? - ) of Great Was the Fall (1912), who signs the Introduction as A H M; a Near Future tale on Battle of Dorking lines, including a sneak Invasion by Germany, which has taken advantage of Britain's unpreparedness. [JC]
Infinite Space
Videogame (2009). Nude Maker / Platinum Games. Designed by Hifumi Kono, Masafumi Nukita. Platforms: NDS. / Infinite Space is a Console Role Playing Game (see Computer Role Playing Games) which uses a combination of two-dimensional displays and pre-prepared three-dimensional sequences to present its intergalactic milieu. Players are able to explore space more or less at will, using both ...
Woodring, Jim
(1952- ) American cartoonist, Comic book artist and author. Prone to hallucinations when young, Woodring dropped out of college and after a stint as a garbage collector joined Ruby-Spears Productions as an animator, working on such low-quality shows as Rubik the Amazing Cube (1983) (see Hanna-Barbera) and Turbo Teen (1984-1985), about a teenager who could transform into a sports car. ...
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 ...