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Greider, George Michael
(1944- ) US author of Forever Man (1995), whose Technothriller elements are soon swamped in speculative forays into territories metaphysical and secular, and by a plot which focuses on a Pariah Elite of Immortals, and upon the deaths they cause. [JC]
Twelve Hawks, John
Pseudonym of an unidentified US author (? - ); he has stated more than once that he is not a Native American. No works under any other name have been identified; the author known as Twelve Hawks is almost exclusively associated with one work, the Equipoisal Fourth Realm sequence comprising The Traveler (2005), The Dark River (2007) and The Golden City (2009), set in a ...
Massively Multiplayer Online Game
Term used to describe a type of Videogame in which large numbers of players interact with each other in a persistent Online World. Various forms exist, including Space Sims, exemplified by EVE Online (2003), and First Person Shooters, such as the science-fictional PlanetSide (2003 Verant Interactive, Win) ...
Kilian, Crawford
(1941- ) US-born teacher and author, in Canada from 1967 and a Canadian citizen from 1973 who began publishing work of genre interest with a fantasy for younger children, Wonders, Inc. (1968 chap). He began to publish sf with the first volume of his complex Chronoplane Wars sequence, The Empire of Time (1978), which continued after a gap of years with The Fall of the Republic (1987) and ...
Clockwork Orange, A
Film (1971). Polaris/Warner Bros. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Written by Kubrick, based on A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess. Cast includes Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, Patrick Magee, Malcolm McDowell and Aubrey Morris. 137 minutes. Colour. / This controversial adaptation of Burgess's novel about mind control tells of Alex (McDowell), a teenage thug in a tawdry ...
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 ...