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Gabriel, Peter
(1950- ) UK musician, most famous as a founder-member of the group Genesis. After leaving the band in 1975 he recorded and released four highly regarded solo albums all titled Peter Gabriel (1977, 1978, 1980 and 1982). The albums are differentiated by fans either as "I", "II", "III" and "IV" or, following their cover-art, as Car, Scratch, Melt and Security. The songs, always oblique ...
Star*Line
US Print Magazine of sf, Fantasy, and horror Poetry, founded by Suzette Haden Elgin and edited by Jean-Paul L Garnier since 2021. Initially monthly, then bimonthly, later quarterly, January 1978 to current. / Star*Line has been the official publication of The Science Fiction Poetry Association (from 2017 the ...
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
Japanese animated film (2020); original title Made in Abyss: Fukaki Tamashii no Reimei. Kinema Citrus. Based on the Manga by Akihito Tsukushi. Director: Masayuki Kojima. Writers: Hideyuki Kurata. Voice cast includes Shiori Izawa, Mariya Ise, Minase, Toshiyuki Morikawa and Miyu Tomita. 105 minutes. Colour. / A continuation of the television series Made in Abyss (2017), following the ...
Rothman, Chuck
Working name of US author Charles Warren Rothman (1952- ), who began publishing sf with "The Munij Deserters" in Asimov's for 1982. Quarnian Dow, protagonist of his sf novel Staroamer's Fate (1986), has a Precognitive talent of uncertain value (when first encountered she is moneyless and near-desperate); this ability leads her unerringly to Earth's long-lost ...
Ross, David D
(1955- ) US author who began publishing sf with his Dreamers of the Day sequence – The Argus Gambit (1989) and The Eighth Rank (1991) – which complicatedly traces the political and cultural consequences of a twenty-first-century Ecological mystery that first threatens South American crops, then presages a possible worldwide Disaster. The seriousness with which he ...
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 ...