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Lief, Evelyn
(1945- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Inspector" in Clarion (anth 1971) edited by Robin Scott Wilson, though she had sold at least one story earlier, and who published several stories in Anthologies in that decade. Her sf novel, The Clone Rebellion (1980), intended as the start of a series, depicts a world where ...
Sonny Boy
Japanese animated tv series (2021). Madhouse. Directed and written by Shingo Natsume. Voice cast includes Hiroki Gotō, Aoi Ichikawa, Ai Kakuma, Chiaki Kobayashi, Saori Ōnishi and Aoi Yūki. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / The world around a school vanishes, leaving it marooned in darkness with 36 baffled pupils. Matters are complicated by their developing Superpowers – ...
Mader, Friedrich W
(1866-1945) German author, mainly of juvenile novels, many set in German East Africa and written somewhat in the style of H Rider Haggard. Wunderwelten (1911; trans Max Shachtman as Distant Worlds: The Story of a Voyage to the Planets 1932) is a juvenile which takes its Spaceship crew to Mars and finally – one of the first sf texts to ...
Lindsay, David T
(1897-1953) Scottish author, in active service during World War One, most of his eighteen books being adventure tales, usually juveniles (see Children's SF), all published between 1936 and 1940, often involving feats in aircraft. Of sf interest are The Ninth Plague (1936), about a Mad Scientist's attempts to block off the Sun's rays and cause the ...
Archer, Alex
A House Name used by the Gold Eagle imprint of Harlequin Books (Toronto, Ontario) for the Rogue Angel sequence of contemporary action-adventure fantasy/supernatural thrillers about the explorations of multi-talented female archaeologist Annja Creed. Distantly reminiscent of Lara Croft in the Third Person Shooter Videogame Tomb Raider (1996), she encounters a wide spectrum of ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...