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Strugatski, Arkady and Boris
(1925-1991) and (1933-2012) respectively; Russian authors. Before they began to collaborate in the early 1950s, Arkady studied English and Japanese, and worked as a technical translator and editor, and Boris was a computer mathematician at Pulkovo astronomical observatory. The brothers' first books made up the Noon Universe interplanetary cycle: Strana bagrovykh tuch ["The Country of Crimson Clouds"] (1959); Shest' spichek ["Six Matches"] (coll 1960); ...
Swanwick, Michael
(1950- ) US author who began to publish sf with "The Feast of St Janis" for New Dimensions 11 (anth 1980) edited by Marta Randall and Robert Silverberg, and who became known, very rapidly, as an author of intensely crafted, complex tales whose multiple layering allows his conventional sf plots and venues to be understood as exercises in mythopoesis, somewhat after the manner of Gene ...
Hyper Doll
Japanese animated OVAs (1995; original title Rakusho! Hyper Doll; vt Hyper Doll: Mew & Mica the Easy Fighters). Triangle Staff. Based on the Manga by Shimpei Itoh. Directed by Makoto Moriwaki. Written by Ryou Motohira. Voice cast includes Mayumi Iidzuka, Seizou Katou, Kuujira, Mitsuaki Madono, Hidetoshi Nakamura, Yukana Nogami, Ritsuo Sawa, Yuri Shiratori and Fumihiko Tachiki. Two OVAs of circa 44 minutes; ...
LoBrutto, Pat
Working name of Patrick J LoBrutto (1948- ), US editor and publisher initially at Ace Books, where he worked on the mid-1970s second series of Ace Specials and with Forrest J Ackerman co-edited scores of issues of the translated Perry Rhodan paperback magazine from 1974 to 1978. He has also worked at Doubleday (1977-1989) – ...
Wynd, Oswald
(1913-1998) Japanese-born author, in America and Scotland from the 1930s; in addition to several novels under his own name, he wrote thrillers as by Gavin Black. When Ape Is King (1949) is an Apes as Human tale set during the Japanese Invasion of Malaya in World War Two. [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 ...