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Rusk, James, Jr
(1925-2003) US author of two unexceptional Space Operas, Space Slaves (1980) and Tug of the Dwarf Star (1980). [JC]
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Japanese animated tv series (2018); original title Seishun Buta Yarō wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume wo Minai. Based on the Light Novels by Hajime Kamoshida. CloverWorks. Directed by Sōichi Masui. Written by Masahiro Yokotani. Voice cast includes Kaito Ishikawa, Yurika Kubo, Inori Minase, Asami Seto and Atsumi Tanezaki. Thirteen 24-minute episodes. Colour. / Two years ago, high-schooler Sakuta Azusagawa's ...
Babbage, Charles
(1791-1871) UK mathematician and inventor, a founder of the Analytical Society in 1811, and a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1816; the first of his nearly 100 technical papers, "On continued products", appeared in 1813. His recognition of the necessity for accurate calculation of mathematical tables, as used in navigation and astronomy – after a particular bad set of calculations, he is famously reported to have said, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam" – ...
Odell, Samuel W
(1864-1948) US lawyer and author of two sf books, Atlanteans; Adam Lore's Choice: Stories for Young Men (coll 1889) and The Last War; Or, The Triumph of the English Tongue [for full title see Checklist] (1898). In the latter, a Future-War story set in the twenty-sixth century, the highly civilized all-White Allied Anglo-American Nations decide, more in sorrow, to engage in "war to the end" against a miscegenate evil empire controlled ...
Tieryas, Peter
Working name of South Korean-born author Peter Tieryas Liu (1979- ), in the USA from infancy, who used his full name in earlier work, beginning with the concisely Equipoisal tales assembled as Watering Heaven (coll 2012), some of which seem nonsequitural until they lodge themselves within expected parameters of Fantastika. Though authors like Italo Calvino and ...
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 ...