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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Shaw, George Bernard
(1856-1950) Irish-born playwright, critic and author, in the UK from 1876, where he remained ferociously active throughout a writing career lasting almost seventy-five years (see Longevity in Writers); though often referred to as GBS, he increasingly wrote as Bernard Shaw. Under whatever form of his name, he was central to the Fabian Society from its founding in 1884, editing Fabian Essays (anth 1889) and beginning contentious intellectual ...
Green Planet
US Comic (1962). One issue. Charlton Comics. 36 pages. Artists include Dick Giordano, Charles Nicholas and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio. Scripts probably by Joe Gill. Three comic strips and a two-page text story. / Nearly two-thirds of the comic are taken up by the title story, adapted from Joan Hunter Holly's novel The Green Planet (1960). Jason Tolliver and Kathy Carpenter ...
Koch, Gini
Pseudonym of US author Jeanne Cook (1963- ), who also writes as Jemma Chase, Anita Ensal, G J Koch and J C Koch. She began to publish work of genre interest with "Road Rage" as by J C Koch in Arkham Tales: A Magazine of Weird Fiction for May 2009. Her best known and most extensive work is the ongoing Alien or Kitty Katt series opening with Touched by an Alien (2010). These mingle action-adventure ...
Devil Girl from Mars
Film (1954; 1955 US). Danziger Productions Ltd/British Lion Film Corporation (UK)/Spartan Films (US). Produced by Edward J Danziger and Harry Lee Danziger. Directed by David MacDonald. Written by James Eastwood from the play by Eastwood and John C Mather. Cast includes Adrienne Corri, Hazel Court, Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott and Peter Reynolds. 77 minutes. Black and white. / A flying saucer (see UFOs) with a rotating upper section lands in 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 ...