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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Cassutt, Michael
(1954- ) US scriptwriter/producer for Television, and author who began publishing sf with "A Second Death" in Amazing for June 1974. His numerous television credits include serving as staff writer for The Twilight Zone in 1986 and story editor for Max Headroom in 1987; he has also written scripts of Farscape ...
Aratus
Pseudonym of the unidentified author (? -? ) of A Voyage to the Moon, Strongly Recommended to All Lovers of Real Freedom (1793 chap) a thinly disguised Satire on British Politics and society (see Sociology). Written at the time of both the French and American Revolutions and during the anti-radical administration of William Pitt the Younger, it is a polemic for ...
Mars, Sergio
(1976- ) Spanish author, critic, editor, publisher and translator, one of the best Hard SF writers in Spanish. He has published four sf and fantasy novels, four collections, an essay and about seventy short stories, some of them set in Tolkien's Middle-earth. He is quite popular in Spanish and Latin American sf magazines and anthologies, with dozens of collaborations in the ...
Captain Aero Comics
US Comic (1941-1946). Temerson / Helnit / Continental. 14 issues (numbered #1, #11-#17, #21-#26). Artists include Nina Albright, L B Cole, Carmine Infantino, Rudy Palais, Charles Quinlan Sr and (for a non-genre cover and story) Alex Schomburg. Scriptwriters include Allen Ulmer and Bill Woolfolk. Initially 68 pages, declining to 52; usually with 7-8 long strips and a short text story each issue, plus occasional short pieces as ...
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 ...