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McIntosh, June
(? - ) Australian teacher and author whose publication of the children's Fantasy Jasper Jett & the Breach of the Sixth Crystal (2011) as J T McIntosh led to some bibliographic confusion with the UK author J T McIntosh; the book was reissued as by June McIntosh, which was also the byline for the sequel ...
Koyama Takao
(1948- ) Japanese author, one of the most influential scenarists in Anime, due to his seminal Television scripts and his mentoring of the next generation of writers. / While studying literature at Waseda University, he was already working part-time in television, writing questions for the programme Quiz Time Shock. Joining Tatsunoko Productions after graduation, Koyama was ...
Forest, Louis
Pseudonym of French lawyer, politician, playwright and author Louis Nathan (1872-1933), who is of sf interest for On Vole des Enfants à Paris ["We Steal Children in Paris"] (25 June-23 September 1906 Le Matin as "Le Voleur d'enfants"; cut 1909; trans Brian Stableford as Someone Is Stealing Children in Paris 2013), in which a morally ambivalent figure of German origin is enlisted to solve the mysterious kidnapping ...
Rowcroft, Charles
(1798-1856) UK author, in Australia between 1821 and 1825, perhaps best known for his Australian adventure fiction assembled in Tales of the Colonies (coll 1843) and its successors. In his sf novel, The Triumph of Woman: A Christmas Story (1848), an inhabitant of sexless Neptune (see Outer Planets) visits a German, with whose daughter he falls in love amid erudite discussions of Neptunian science. The plot then devolves into a ...
Frankenheimer, John
(1930-2002) US film director. A graduate of the 1950s school of live television drama, Frankenheimer first attracted attention as a film-maker with melodramas centred on youth and social issues: The Young Stranger (1956), The Young Savages (1961), All Fall Down (1961) and The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). However, in his direction of The Manchurian Candidate (1962), ...
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 ...