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Hildebrandt, The Brothers

Working name for the team of American artists Gregory J Hildebrandt (1939-2024) and Timothy Mark Allen Hildebrandt (1939-2006), identical twin brothers, although they also worked separately using the working names Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt. They will forever be regarded primarily as the definitive illustrators of J R R Tolkien because of the famous Tolkien calendars that featured their paintings of his characters; oddly enough, except for one 1975 ...

Bridges, T C

(1868-1944) French-born author, in UK from childhood and Florida from 1886 to 1894; he also wrote as Christopher Beck, Martin Shaw (which may have been a House Name) and John N Stanton. A prolific author of boys' fiction from 1899 or earlier, including some Sexton Blake Library stories, he wrote several sf tales for the oldest segment of his audience. Of greatest interest are The Secret of the Waters (1917), ...

Ukraine

Any account of Ukrainian Fantastika must distinguish between works written in Ukraine and works written in Ukrainian, a Venn diagram of contending linguistic and political forces. These include a sub-genre of "emigre" fiction, written in Germany, France, Canada and the United States up until the 1960s, works written in what is now the geographic territory of Ukraine, ...

Armitage III

Japanese animated tv series (1995). Original title Amitēji Za Sādo. Written by Akinori Endo and Chiaki Konaka. Directed by Hiroyuki Ochi. Voice cast includes Hiroko Kasahara, Yasunori Masutani and Ryûsei Nakao. Four episodes of 30-50 minutes. Colour. / In 2046, policeman Ross Syllabus (Masutani) is transferred from Earth to the Mars City of Saint ...

Kelly, Robert

(1935-    ) US academic, poet – extremely prolific from about 1960, with at least fifty volumes published – and author. His novel The Scorpions (1967) has been read as sf because of its baroquely Paranoid rendering of a psychiatrist's conviction that a rich patient does in fact have contact with the Scorpions, a race of ultraviolet people (see Psychology). However, like Cities ...

Clute, John

(1940-    ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...



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