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Shadow of Memories
Videogame (2001; vt Shadow of Destiny). Konami. Designed by Junko Kawano. Platforms: PS2 (2001); Win, XBox (2002); PSP (2009). / Shadow of Memories is a highly atmospheric graphical Adventure with an unusual plot; the player must solve the mystery of their own murder. The display is fully three-dimensional, and the gameplay revolves around puzzle solution and conversation with computer ...
Laverty, Donald
Pseudonym used by James Blish and Damon Knight in collaboration, for the single story "No Winter, No Summer" (October 1948 Thrilling Wonder). [JC] links / Internet Speculative Fiction Database
North, Delavel
(? -? ) UK author of The Last Man in London (1887), presented as a manuscript containing a vision of the future, in which the Last Man in an empty London after an unspecified Disaster engages in what George Locke describes as "an orgy of destruction not dissimilar to that featured in M P Shiel's ...
Parmele, Mary Platt
(1843-1911) US popular historian and author of Ariel; Or, the Author's World (1898 chap), whose narrator – taking advantage of unexplained Psi Powers – creates a planetoid which circles Earth at a distance of 400,000 miles, apparently in geosynchronous orbit (see Scientific Errors), and which is inhabited by the Frankenstein Monster and other creatures also ...
Baoh
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1989). Original title Baō Raihōsha. Based on the Manga by Hirohiko Araki. Pierrot. Directed by Hiroyuki Yokoyama. Written by Kenji Terada. Voice cast includes Noriko Hidaka, Hideyuki Hori, Ichirō Nagai and Yūsaku Yara. 46 minutes. Colour. / Nine-year-old Sumire (Hidaka) has Precognition powers, so has been taken from her orphanage ...
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 ...