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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Girl from Tomorrow, The
Australian tv series (1991-1992). Film Australia. Created by Mark Shirrefs, John Thomson and Kathy Mueller. Produced by Noel Price and Ron Saunders. Directors included Kathy Mueller and Noel Price. Writers included Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson. Cast included Andrew Clarke, Katherine Cullen, James Findlay, John Howard, Melissa Marshall and Helen O'Connor. 24 23-minute episodes. Colour. / This miniseries, aimed at a ...
Parrish, Randall
(1858-1923) US lawyer, journalist and author, mostly of romantic Westerns, a category description which roughly frames his Lost Race novel, Prisoners of Chance: The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, Through his Love for a Lady of France (1908), set in Louisiana Province in the eighteenth century, where the protagonist discovers the ancient race now known to scholars as the Mound Builders. [JC]
Jaffery, Sheldon
(1934-2003) US attorney, editor and bibliographer. In the latter capacity he concentrated on Fantasy and Horror, beginning with Horrors and Unpleasantries: A Bibliographical History and Collector's Price Guide to Arkham House (1982; rev vt The Arkham House Companion) [for full subtitle see Checklist] (1989) a bibliography of Arkham House productions. His guides to ...
Weird Thrillers
US Comic (1951-1952). Approved Comics (see Ziff-Davis). Five issues. Artists include Allen Anderson, Vic Martin and Norman Saunders. Script writers include Robert Bernstein and Vic Martin. 36 pages per issue, comprising 4-5 long strips and a short text story, plus assorted brief strips – in #1 and #2 these are usually science-related non-fiction, such as where ...
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 ...