SF Encyclopedia Home Page
Sunday 10 May 2026
Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Fourth Edition. Some sample entries appear below. Click here for the Introduction; here for what we mean by Science Fiction; here for the masthead; here for some Statistics; here for the Acknowledgments; here for the FAQ; here for advice on citations. Find entries via the search box above (more details here) or browse the menu categories in the grey bar at the top of this page.
Site updated on 4 May 2026
Sponsor of the day: Andy Richards of Cold Tonnage Books
Conway, Gerard F
(1952-2026) US author informally known as Gerry Conway who began his career in Comics, writing some non-fantastic scripts for Marvel Comics, and editing the short-lived 1973 weird fiction magazine The Haunt of Horror and writing for the 1973-1975 anthology Comic Worlds Unknown. He also worked extensively for ...
Creature that Ate Sheboygan, The
Board and counter Wargame (1979). Simulations Publications Inc (SPI). Designed by Greg Costikyan. / Creature is an entertaining and highly playable game inspired by such 1950s B-movies as Godzilla (1954) (see Gojira) and The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). One player constructs a gigantic ...
Born in Flames
Film (1983). Lizzie Borden/Jerome Foundation/CAPS/Young Filmmakers. Written, produced, edited and directed Lizzie Borden. Cast includes Adele Bertei, Kathryn Bigelow, Honey, Flo Kennedy and Jeanne Satterfield. 80 minutes. Colour. / This underground movie, made over five years on 16 mm film and video, was deservedly given quite wide distribution. Ten years after a peaceful social-democratic revolution in the USA, the Party is in power, the position of women in society is still not ...
Pavić, Milorad
(1929-2009) Serbian translator, academic, poet and author, active from the 1960s; he remains most famous – and clearly of greatest sf interest – for his first full-length novel, Hazarski rečnik: Roman-leksikon u 100,000 reči (1984 2vols; trans Christina Pribićević-Zorić as Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words 1988 2vols), a text comprised of various narrative entries concerning the lost land of Khazar (see ...
Halford, John
(? -? ) UK author whose Hidden Saria (1934) is a Lost Race tale featuring an advanced civilization, hidden in a valley in Asia and descended from ancient Greek wanderers. [JC]
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 ...