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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Attack on Titan
Japanese animated tv series (2013-current). Original title Shingeki no Kyojin. Based on the Manga by Hajime Isayama. Wit Studio, MAPPA. Directed by Tetsurō Araki, Yūichirō Hayashi, Masashi Koizuka and Jun Shishido. Written by Yasuko Kobayashi and Hiroshi Seko. Voice cast includes Marina Inoue, Yui Ishikawa, Yuuki Kaji and Romi Park. 75 24-minute episodes (and 8 OVAs). Colour. / Within three concentric walls ...
Tales of Tomorrow
UK pocketbook-size magazine, published irregularly by John Spencer, London; edited (uncredited) by Samuel Assael and Maurice Nahum. Eleven issues 1950-1954 (none in 1951), numbered but undated. / One of the four low-quality Spencer juvenile-sf magazines of the 1950s, the others being Futuristic Science Stories, ...
Iczer One
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1985-1987). AIC. Based on the Manga by Aran Rei. Directed and written by Toshihiro Hirano. Voice cast includes Arisa Andō, Kaneto Shiozawa, Mayumi Shō, Keiko Toda, Naoko Watanabe and Yuriko Yamamoto. Three 30-48 minute episodes. Colour. / Having lost their homeworld, the Alien Cthulhu desire a new place to live, travelling the universe in their ...
Two Faces of Dr Jekyll, The
Film (1960; vt House of Fright; vt Jekyll's Inferno). Hammer Film Productions (UK), American International Pictures (US). Directed by Terence Fisher. Produced by Michael Carreras. Written by Wolf Mankowitz, very loosely based (uncredited) on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson. Cast includes Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee and Paul ...
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 ...