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Yolen, Jane
(1939-2026) US author, partially resident in Scotland, who began publishing poems and articles when still in college, and who first came to notice with books for children, the first of many being Pirates in Petticoats (1963). Of her circa 460 titles, many of which won awards in her field, most were for children (see listing below for some of these), many of them being picture books for younger children; most of her adult fiction, of which she wrote relatively little, was ...
Knights of Guinevere
Australian/US animated online series (2025). Glitch Productions. Created and written by Zach Marcus, John Bailey Owen and Dana Terrace. Directed by Dana Terrace. Voice cast includes Zelda Khan Black, SungWon Cho, Lauren Kong, Michaela Laws, Erin Nicole Lundquist and Eden Riegel. One 26-minute pilot episode to date. Colour / Orville Park (Cho) shows his child Olivia (Kong/Lundquist) her inheritance: a magnificent new ...
Parmele, Mary Platt
(1843-1911) US popular historian and author of Ariel; Or, the Author's World (1898 chap), whose narrator – taking advantage of unexplained Psi Powers – creates a planetoid which circles Earth at a distance of 400,000 miles, apparently in geosynchronous orbit (see Scientific Errors), and which is inhabited by the Frankenstein Monster and other creatures also ...
She Demons
Film (1958). Screencraft Enterprises/Astor Pictures Corporations. Produced by Arthur A Jacobs. Directed by Richard E Cunha (credited as Richard Cunha). Cast includes Rudolph Anders, The Diane Nellis Dancers, Tod Griffin, Irish McCalla, Leni Tana and Victor Sen Yung. Written by Cunha and H E Barrie from their original story. 77 minutes. Black and white. / Beautiful but spoiled heiress Jerrie Turner (McCalla) and boyfriend Fred Maklin (Griffin) wash up after being shipwrecked in a ...
Cave
Chicago-based instrumental group. Their compositions are structured around carefully locked-together repetitive riffs and generate considerable quasi-hypnotic intensity. Psychic Psummer (2009) opens with the deep space tour "Gamm" (the name comes from an obscure Swedish record label); and the album also includes "Encino Man", a version of the 1992 movie Encino Man about a frozen caveman who is brought back to life in modern-day California. The ...
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 ...