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Pierre, DBC
Pseudonym of Australian author Peter Finlay (1961- ), the initials of whose pseudonym stand for Dirty But Clean, a reference to the author's adventurous but troubled early life; these early experiences are surreally unpacked in his first novel, Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death (2003), a gonzo Bildungsroman which gestures at the fantastic. Conjoined twins in an almost Near Future, ...
MacCreagh, Gordon
(circa 1889-1953) Scottish traveller and author, in USA from 1911; he began publishing his tales of adventure in Pulp magazines from about 1913, some of these, like "The Hand of Saint Ury" (January 1951 Weird Tales), having supernatural content; his nonfiction, in particular The Last of Free Africa (1928) [for subtitle see Checklist], was widely read. Of sf interest are two Lost Race ...
Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire
South Africa/Nigeria/US animated television series (2023). Triggerfish Animation Studios. Executive producer: Peter Ramsey. Voice cast includes Kehinde Bankole, May Elghety, Blair Koono, Gigi Lamayne, Mo Mjamba, Sheila Munyiva, Nasty C, Mandisa Nduna, Pious Nyenyewa, Laith Nakli, Toluwanimi Olaoye, Sechaba Ramphele, Rene Setlhako, Pearl Thusi and Stycie Waweru. Ten 12-13 minute episodes. Colour. / Involving creators from Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, this ...
Bradbury, Will
Working name of US author Wilbury Bradbury (? - ) who has published nonfiction under his full name, including Into the Unknown (1981), which concerns itself with paranormal phenomena. His sf novel The God Cell (1976) is a Horror in SF tale in the course of which Mutant animals, whose Intelligence has been abnormally magnified by a ...
Tevis, Walter
(1928-1984) US author, professor of English literature at the University of Ohio, who perhaps remains best known as the author of The Hustler (1959), filmed in 1961, and its sequel, The Color of Money (1984), filmed in 1986. He began publishing sf with "The Ifth of Oofth" in Galaxy for April 1957 as Walter S Tevis – his early work, and the tales he wrote around 1980, are assembled as Far from Home (coll 1981) – but ...
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 ...