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Games Magazines

This encyclopedia does not as a rule give full entries to Games-oriented Print Magazines: FASA's Stardate (which see) is a rare exception, since for part of its run it was also a science fiction magazine; another exception is Ares (which see), most of whose issues included an sf story. Other games magazines of some relevance have included Dragon from TSR Inc, with 359 ...

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Film (1982). Paramount. Directed by Nicholas Meyer. Written by Jack B Sowards, based on a story by Harve Bennett and Sowards. Cast includes the lead players from the Star Trek television series, along with Kirstie Alley, Bibi Besch, Merritt Butrick, Ricardo Montalban. 114 minutes. Colour. / This was the second (and very much cheaper) movie incarnation of Star Trek, the first ...

Jemisin, N K

(1972-    ) US psychologist and author, mostly of fantasy, who began publishing work of genre interest with "L'Alchimista" in Scattered, Covered, Smothered (anth 2004) edited by Jason Erik Lundberg, and who is best known for her first two sequences. The Inheritance Trilogy – comprising The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), which won a Locus Award for best first ...

Proto SF

Meaningful use of the term "proto science fiction" obviously depends on one's Definition of the term "science fiction", just as the use of the term "taproot texts" [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] depends on a moderately stable definition of the term "fantasy"; indeed, the quest for sf's literary ancestry and "origins" is as much a dimension of the problem of definition as a ...

Meginnis, Mike

(?   -    ) US author whose two novels interweave sf motifs and topoi and Tall-Tale confabulation into renderings of twenty-first century Fantastika at perhaps its most effective: abrupt clashing recognitions of the world being a central characteristic of this broad category of fiction [for Tall Tales see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. In his ...

Langford, David

(1953-    ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...



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