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Lawson, Mark
(1962- ) UK broadcaster, journalist and author, active in UK literary circles from 1984, whose Alternate History tale, Idlewild, or Everything Is Subject to Change (1995), focuses on the Icon figures John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, both alive in 1993 and attempting a reunion as assassins hover. [JC]
Lottem, Emanuel
(1944-2024) Israeli translator and editor, active since the 1970s, in which capacities he was instrumental in introducing genre sf to an Israeli audience. He was formerly a lecturer in economics and in the diplomatic service. / He began translating for the publishing house Keter as a way of supplementing his income. When Keter decided to launch a new science fiction imprint, Lottem became its first editor. The White Series, as it became known – due to ...
Ishinomori Shōtarō
Working name of Shōtarō Onodera (1938-1998), Shōtarō Ishimori to 1986, Ishinomori thereafter, a prolific Japanese comic artist with a profound influence on both Anime and live-action Television in the twentieth century, particularly in the children's market. His collected Manga works, Ishinomori Shōtarō Manga Zenshū ["The Complete '10,000 ...
Kariya Tetsu
(1941- ) Chinese-born Japanese comics writer, in Australia since 1988, whose early works were chiefly muscular men's Manga featuring gangland violence and histrionic struggles for power. Among these, there is little of genre interest save perhaps Otoko Ōzora ["Man Big Sky"] (1980-1982 Shōnen Sunday) which, in importing Wuxia tropes to the Japanese mainland, flirts with ...
Chase, Adam
Pseudonym used usually by Milton Lesser alone, but once in collaboration with Paul W Fairman on The Golden Ape (1959), based on "Quest of the Golden Ape" (January-March 1957 Amazing) as by Adam Chase and Ivar Jorgensen, the latter being a House Name associated in that spelling with Fairman. [JC] links / ...
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 ...