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Voiskunsky, Evgeny
(1922-2020) Russian naval officer, journalist and author; he wrote in collaboration with his first cousin Isai Borisovich Lukodianov (1913-1984) until the latter's death. Their work together began with the two-volume Institute of Marine Physics sequence. Ekipazh "Mekonga" (1961; cut trans Leonard Stoklitsky as The Crew of the Mekong 1974) is a long but fast-moving Hard-SF examination of two ...
Broszkiewicz, Jerzy
(1922-1993) Polish journalist and writer whose sf works for younger readers have been credited with revitalizing Polish youth literature in the 1960s. He debuted in 1945 as a writer and critic. His first works were not related to sf or fantasy; throughout his life he wrote several dozen dramas and novels, the latter often in the historical or sf genres. / Of direct interest are his sf novels for younger readers, of which the most significant was his sf debut ...
Three-Lobed Burning Eye
US Online Magazine of horror, sf, and Fantasy, published by editor Andrew S Fuller. Initially bimonthly, later triannual, April 1999 to current. / Despite taking its name from H P Lovecraft's, "The Haunter of the Dark" (December 1936 Weird Tales), Three-Lobed Burning Eye does not specialize in publishing weird fiction or the ...
McCarthy, Helen
(1951- ) UK author, critic and scholar of Manga and Anime; involved since the 1970s with UK Fandom and active since 1981 as a commentator on Japanese popular culture. She co-founded and edited the London-based magazine Anime UK (1991-1996; retitled Anime FX in 1995). Her nonfiction works include most importantly The Anime Encyclopedia (2001; ...
Merrill, Harrison R
(1884-1938) US poet, academic and author of Ko-i-Chito: The Indian Boy (1937), a tale for children set in what would become Utah, mixing together Lost Race and Prehistoric SF influences. [JC]
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...