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Griffin, Russell M
(1943-1986) US academic and author who began publishing sf with his first novel, The Makeshift God (1979), an ambitiously overwritten and overlong but notably intelligent romance of origins, set initially in a drab Arab-dominated marginally pre-Cyberpunk USA, and then on a planet which houses mysteriously significant data about the deep human past. Century's End (1981) takes another blackly satirical look at the ...
Edmonds, Leigh
(1948- ) Australian historian (with a PhD in history) and author active in Fandom since 1966; recipient of four Ditmar Awards for Fanzines and fan writing. His Fanew Sletter (100 issues, February 1974 to July 1978) was a noted Australian Newszine in its day; his many other fanzines included Ornithopter (11 ...
Rositzke, Harry A
(1911-2002) US CIA agent 1947-1970 whose professional focus on the USSR generated (post-retirement) nonfiction studies of interest, including The KGB: The Eyes of Russia (1980). Of sf interest is Left On!: The Glorious Bourgeois Cultural Revolution (1973) which describes guardedly the establishment of a Near Future populist Utopia in America. [JC]
Kerruish, Jessie Douglas
(1884-1949) UK author, initially of romances with fantasy elements [see also The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], and also of numerous short stories from around 1910, several of them assembled later as Babylonian Nights' Entertainment: A Selection of Narratives from the Text of Certain Undiscovered Cuneiform Tablets (coll 1934). Of some sf interest is her Werewolf tale, ...
Enemy's the Pirates!, The
Japanese Original Video Animation (1989; original title Teki wa Kaizoku: Neko no Kyōen; vt The Enemy's the Pirates!: The Cat's Banquet; vt Galactic Pirates; vt Galactic Pirates Cat's Feast). Kitty Film Mitaka Studio. Based on the novels by Chohei Kanbayashi. Directed by Katsuhisa Yamada. Written by Akinori Endo. Voice cast includes Kenyuu Horiuchi, Chie Kōjiro, Yūji Mitsuya, Jouji ...
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 ...