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Mason, Mary
(? - ) US author, married since 1987 to Stephen Goldin, with whom she collaborated on the short and lightweight Rehumanization of Jade Darcy sf sequence; see his entry for more. [DRL]
Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories
US Pulp magazine, two issues, April/May and June/July 1931, published by Good Story Magazine, New York, one of the new companies set up by Harold Hersey, previously editor of Thrill Book. The magazine was edited by Douglas M Dold, who had been blinded in the First World War, so effectively worked in collaboration with his brother, the artist Elliott ...
Theme Parks
While there were precursors that are said to have anticipated the idea, Walt Disney (see The Walt Disney Company) effectively introduced the theme park as it is now perceived in 1955, when Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, with rides that not only provided thrills but also featured exotic settings, characters, and (sometimes) a loose story line; after it proved very popular, other companies created many other theme parks. Naturally, many of ...
Bryan, R M
(? - ) US author of the Near Future Post-Holocaust Young Adult Arden House sequence, beginning with Arden House: Book 1: Flight (2013), during the course of which two young protagonists find an isolated Quaker enclave, which they turn into a well-defended Keep, gaining some chance of survival in a balkanized ...
Winters, Ben H
(1976- ) US playwright, journalist and author whose first books – including The Jewish Comedy Thesaurus: 3,102 Quips, Quotes, and Kvetches (2007) and the Worst-Case Scenario series of spoofs with David Borgenicht and Robin Epstein – were comic nonfiction. He is of sf interest for two series. His contributions to his publisher's Quirk Classics sequence are Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (2009) with Jane Austen ...
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 ...