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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Star Spangled Comics
US Comic (1941-1952). DC Comics. 130 issues. Artists include Henry Boltinoff, Jack Kirby, Jim Mooney, Fred Ray, Jimmy Thompson and Chuck Winter. Script writers include Otto Binder, Henry Boltinoff, Don C Cameron, Jack Kirby, Fred Ray, Jerry Siegel and Manly Wade Wellman. Initially 68 pages, typically ...
Mitchell, Clyde
A Ziff-Davis House Name, 1956-1957, used twice by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett in collaboration, twice by Henry Slesar (confirmed by Slesar himself), and once by Harlan Ellison on "The Wife Factory" (November 1957 Fantastic). [PN/MA]
Atri: My Dear Moments
Japanese animated tv series (2024). Troyca. Based on the visual-novel Videogame of the same name. Directed by Makoto Katō. Written by Jukki Hanada. Voice cast includes Hikaru Akao, Yoko Hikasa, Masako Katsuki, Kensho Ono and Natsu Yorita. Thirteen episodes of circa 25 minutes. Colour. / Seventeen-year-old Natsuki Ikaruga (Ono) still has nightmares about the childhood accident in which he lost both his mother Shiina ...
Levack, Daniel J H
(? - ) US bibliographer and critic, author of several author Bibliographies including Fantasms: A Bibliography of the Literature of Jack Vance (1978 chap with Tim Underwood; rev vt Fantasms II 1979 with Underwood and Kurt Cockrum; rev 1979), PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography (1981; rev 1988), ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book ...