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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Roberts, Gareth
(1968- ) UK author of several Ties to the Doctor Who universe, beginning with Doctor Who: The New Adventures: The Highest Science (1993) in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures subseries, and continuing with Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures: The Romance of Crime (1995) in the Doctor Who: Missing Adventures subseries and Doctor Who: New Series: Only Human (2005) ...
Lightner, A M
(1904-1988) US author of much popular-science nonfiction under her married name, Alice L Hopf, beginning with Monarch Butterflies (1965), and of Children's SF and Young Adult fiction as Lightner, beginning with "A New Game" for Boys' Life in 1959. After The Pillar and the Flame (1928), a nonfantastic narrative poem, she began to publish sf novels with the undemanding ...
Boys from Brazil, The
Film (1978). Producer Circle. Directed Franklin J Schaffner. Written by Heywood Gould, based on The Boys from Brazil (1976) by Ira Levin. Cast includes Jeremy Black, James Mason, Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck. 125 minutes. Colour. / Like the novel on which it is based, this is an absurd but entertaining concoction of pulp-thriller conventions with some rather interesting scientific conjecture about environment and heredity. Joseph ...
Earley, George W
(1927-2020) US engineer and editor, involved in sf Fandom in the 1940s; his sf Anthology, Encounters with Aliens: UFO's and Alien Beings in Science Fiction (anth 1968), focuses on Aliens, including some tales of First Contact. [JC/DRL]
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...