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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 ...
Heine, Irving
(? - ) Unidentified and perhaps pseudonymous author (probably UK) whose only book credit is for Dimension of Illion (1955). Heine was long thought to be one of the many Pseudonyms of Denis Hughes, who however denied this when interviewed by Steve Holland. [SH/DRL] see also: ...
Dream Dimension Hunter Fandora
Japanese Original Video Animation (1985-1986); original title Mujigen Hunter Fandora. Kaname Production. Created Go Nagai. Directed by Shigenori Kageyama, Kazuyuki Okaseko and Hiroshi Yoshida. Written by Koichi Minade, Ryuji Yamada and Takashi Yamada. Voice cast includes Keiko Han, Mitsuko Horie, Kazuhiko Inoue, Makio Inoue, Akira Kamiya, Yūko Mita and Hirotaka Suzuoki. Three 35-46 minute episodes. Colour. / The ...
Drummond, June
(1923-2011) South African author, in London for several years in the 1950s. She wrote almost exclusively detective novels and Regency romances; one of the former, The Gantry Episode (1968; vt Murder on a Bad Trip 1968), edges into sf in its investigation of the planting of the Drug LSD in a reservoir and of the effects thereof. [JC/DRL] see also: Urban Legends. /
Sears, Richard
(? - ) US journalist, counsellor and author of First Born (2000), in which an Alien entity, possibly descended to America by flying saucer (see UFOs), seems to have been implanting its seed in human women; hunted by Neo Tech arm of the government, for its own purposes. The unusual child itself survives, and may take us in hand. Last Day (2001), though its storyline is not ...
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 reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...