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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Llamas with Hats
US online animated series (2009-2015). FilmCow. Directed and written by Jason Steele. Voice cast Chris Alex and Jason Steele. Twelve 1-2 minute episodes. Colour. / Carl and Paul are talking llamas [for Talking Animals see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] and can be distinguished by their hats: Carl's is green; Paul's is red and has a flower, the latter leading Carl to assume Paul was female (see ...
van Breen, Eef
(1978- ) Dutch trumpeter, singer and composer. His opera 'u' (2010), with a libretto by Kees Ligtelijn and Klingon language creator Marc Okrand, was advertised as "The first authentic Klingon opera on Earth" (see Star Trek). The story tells of the discord between Klingon brothers Kahless and Morath, and involves Kortar, guardian of the underworld, and the forging of the first bat'leth or Sword of Honour. The music, ...
Coughlin, William J
(1929-1992) US defense attorney, judge and author, who also published as by Sean A Key. Of his several thrillers, The Destruction Committee (1971) is of sf interest for its portrait of a Near Future America in which a group of tough Vietnam veterans come together monthly to kill an undesirable, a vigilante procedure culminating in the decision to kill off the left-wing candidate for Vice President in the forthcoming election, deciding to do so on ...
Satifka, Erica L
(? - ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Automatic" in Clarkesworld for January 2007, set like much of her short work in a Dystopian urban Near Future populated by outlier figures, some of them modified humans, some of them artefacts. How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (coll 2021) generously represents this ...
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 ...