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Longyear, Barry B
(1942-2025) US author and editor who ran a printing company with his wife before beginning to write in 1977, beginning to publish work of genre interest with "The Tryouts" in Asimov's for November/December 1978. Before his 1981 hospitalization for alcoholism and addiction to prescription drugs – an experience which formed the basis of his non-sf novel Saint Mary Blue (1988) – he had already published prolifically, sometimes as by Frederick ...
Baldwin, Bill
Working name of US author Merl William Baldwin Jr (1935-2015), known mainly for the efficient Helmsman adventure-sf Space Opera sequence, whose plots are deployed on a galactic scale, initially beginning with The Helmsman (1985; rev vt The Helmsman: A Special Director's Cut 2004) and closing with The Defiance (1996); a late addition to the series is The Turning Tide (2011). Proof copies of ...
Space Action
US Comic (1952). Three issues. Ace Magazines (Junior Books, Inc.). Artists include Lou Cameron, Bill Molno, Rocco Mastroserio and Jim McLaughlin. Four comic strips and one (author uncredited) short story per issue. / The comic delivers on its title, the stories being action-dominated Space Operas and are enjoyable as such. The shortness of the strips (7-8 pages) means characters and narratives are formulaic (see ...
Hazbin Hotel
US animated webseries (2019; 2024-current). Spindle House, Bento Box Entertainment. Created and directed by Vivienne Medrano. Writers include David Capdevielle, Raymond Hernandez, Ariel Ladensohn, Vivienne Medrano and Adam Stein. Voice cast includes Edward Bosco, Alex Brightman, Gabriel C Brown, Monica Franco, Jill Harris, Elsie Lovelock, Michael Kovach, Mike Lauer, Michelle Marie, Will Stamper and Jessica Vosk. Nine episodes of 24-32 minutes. Colour. / The pilot webfilm was ...
Posey, Carl A
(1933- ) US author of two Technothrillers: Kiev Footprint (1983), set in the Near Future with the Cold War still raging, and a secret Weapon in a space shuttle about to crash into the planet; and Prospero Drill (1984), an sf adventure for Robert Hale Limited involving ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...