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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Ogawa Yōko
(1962- ) Japanese author, active from the late 1980s. Of her prolific output, the 1990 title story of The Diving Pool: Three Novellas (coll trans Stephen Snyder from various sources 2008) won the Shirley Jackson Award for 2008. She is of sf interest for Hisoyaka na kesshō (1994; trans Stephen Snyder as The Memory Police 2019), a somewhat abstract but intensely narrated Dystopian tale set in ...
Le Lapin, Francis
Pseudonym of unidentified Belgian (? - ) editor and author whose Satirical The Secret Files of Donald J Trump sequence beginning with The Tijuana Tango (2020) is set in a Steampunk Alternate History version of 1968; among other Satirical happenings, "the spy who loved himself" is dispatched by the Russian Tsar to ...
Murderbot
US tv series (2025-current). Depth of Field Productions/Phantom Four Films/Paramount Television Studios. Written and created by Paul and Chris Weitz, based on All Systems Red (2017) by Martha Wells. Various directors, including Paul and Chris Weitz. Cast includes John Cho, David Dastmalchian, Noma Dumezweni, Clark Gregg, Tattiawna Jones, Akshay Khana, Anna Konkle, Tamara Podemsky, Alexander Skarsgård, DeWanda Wise and Sabrina Wu. ...
Privilege
Film (1967). Worldfilm Services and Memorial Enterprises/Universal. Directed by Peter Watkins. Written by Norman Bogner, based on a story by Johnny Speight. Cast includes Max Bacon, Paul Jones, Mark London and Jean Shrimpton. 103 minutes. Colour. / A successful rock-star (Jones) is used by a Near-Future UK government as a puppet Messiah to manipulate the opinions of the youthful citizens. ...
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 ...