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Brooks, Terry
(1944- ) US lawyer and author who began to publish work of genre interest with The Sword of Shannara (1977), a heavily Tolkien-influenced Fantasy (as Brooks has freely acknowledged) which inaugurated both the Ballantine/Del Rey Books imprint and the lengthy, bestselling Shannara sequence for which Brooks is best known; ...
Bigly, Cantell A
Pseudonym of US author George Washington Peck (1817-1859), author of a travel book, Melbourne, and the Chincha Islands; With Sketches of Lima, and a Voyage Round the World (1854) under his own name. His novel as Bigly, Aurifodina; Or, Adventures in the Gold Region (1849; vt Aurifodina; Or, Adventures in the Gold Region: A Fantastical '49er Novel 1974), is a Lost Race Satire set in an unknown ...
Cyborg 009
1. Japanese animated film (1966). Based on the Manga by Shotaro Ishinomori. Toei Animation. Directed by Yugo Serikawa. Written by Takashi Iijima and Yugo Serikawa. Voice cast includes Judy Ong, Hiroyuki Oota and Jouji Yanami. 65 minutes. Colour. / This was the first of several Anime based on the long-running manga Cyborg 009 (1964-1981). / When racing driver Shimamura Joe's ...
Rita
Pseudonym of Scottish author Eliza Margaret Jane Gollan (1850-1938), better known as Mrs Desmond Humphreys for most of her work; she was extremely prolific, and involved in Theosophy in her later years, which may have affected her work of sf interest, The Seventh Dream (coll 1905), one of whose three novellas concerns the experimental inducing of prophetic dreams, which have been transmitted from elsewhere and which describe in detail a ...
King, William
(1959- ) UK author, primarily of Ties connected to the Warhammer/Warhammer 40,000 universe, beginning with "Green Troops" for Dream Science Fiction in 1988; he is best known for the Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix sequence, where as usual sf tropes vie with fantasy tropes in a variety of worlds rife with Monsters and in a state of constant ...
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 ...