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Sarrantonio, Al

(1952-2025) US editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ahead of the Joneses" in Asimov's for March 1979. Much of his work was horror, sometimes tinged with sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Worms (1985), a Gothic tale set in Massachusetts with hints of H P Lovecraft; and the Equipoisal Moonbane ...

Montgomerie, F W

(?   -?   ) Unidentified author, possibly the pseudonym of New Zealand scientist and author Frederick Wollaston Hutton (1836-1905), an early supporter of the theory of Evolution, married to Annie Gouger Montgomerie. Paying the Price (1907) follows the career of a Mad Scientist in Australia who develops a strain of plague to eliminate the weak (see Eugenics; ...

Lost Worlds

This rubric covers Lost Races, lost Cities, lost lands and Islands: all the enclaves of mystery in a rapidly shrinking world that featured so largely in the sf of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This subgenre was obviously a successor to the Fantastic Voyages of the eighteenth century and earlier, but there are important distinctions to be drawn. The ...

Regnas, C

Pseudonym of UK barrister and author Charles Percy Sanger (1871-1930) – ie, Regnas backwards – whose Utopia, The Land of Nison [or "no sin"] (1906) is a Hollow Earth tale, whose protagonist, tumbling downwards into the land beneath, finds a mirror world which features minimal government, recognition of the inferiority of women (see Women in SF), and some advances in ...

Disenchantment

US animated tv series (2018-current). Created by Matt Groening. Developed by Matt Groening and Josh Weinstein. The ULULU Company, Rough Draft Studios. Directors include Wesley Archer, David D. Au, Frank Marino and Ira Sherak. Writers include David X. Cohen, Eric Horsted and Bill Oakley. Voice cast includes Eric Andre, John DiMaggio, Nat Faxon, Sharon Horgan, Abbi Jacobson, Phil LaMarr, Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille. 40 28-minute (or thereabouts) episodes. Colour. / 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 ...



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