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Justy
Japanese OVA (1985; vt Cosmo Police Justy). Studio Pierrot. Based on the Manga by Tsuguo Okazaki. Directed by Motosuke Takahashi. Written by Hiroyuki Hoshiyama. Voice cast includes Kazuhiko Inoue, Miina Tominaga and Keiko Yokozawa. 44 minutes. Colour. / Young Justy Kaizard (Inoue) is an Esper working for the Galaxy Control System's Cosmo Police (see ...
Spencer, G F
(? - ) UK author whose sf novel is Heavens for All (1944). [JC/DRL]
Whitman, John Pratt
(1871-1963) US artist, playwright and author, perhaps best known for The Sympathy of the People: A Drama of Today (1920), a nonfantastic advocacy of labour reform based on the Boston police strike of 1919. Utopia Dawns (coll 1934) contains essays on Utopias, including texts by Sir Thomas More, William Morris, H G Wells and others; an ...
Scrimger, Richard
(1957- ) Canadian author whose first works were nonfantastic work for adult readers, and who is of sf interest for the Norbert Narratives sequence, beginning with The Nose from Jupiter (1998), in which an Alien named Norbert from Jupiter sets up camp in young Alan's nose, where he interferes with (and often solves) Alan's teenage problems. In Noses Are Red ...
Mesnay, Henry
(? - ) French author of La Redoutable secret (1948; trans anon as The Formidable Secret 1952), a Lost World tale set in the mountains of Asia, where the manuscript of a survivor of the fall of Atlantis is discovered far Underground. [JC]
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 ...