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Megazone 23
Japanese Original Video Animation (1985-1986; vt Omega Zone 23; vt Megazone Two-Three). Artland, Artmic. Created by Noboru Ishiguro. Directed by Noboru Ishiguro (part one) and Ichiro Itano (part two). Written by Hiroyuki Hoshiyama. Voice cast includes Maria Kawamura, Masato Kubota, Kumi Miyasato, Kaneto Shiozawa, Mina Tominaga and Kazuki Yao. Two 80 minute episodes, the first titled Megazone 23, the second ...
Palmer, Raymond A
(1910-1977) US editor and author. His childhood was plagued by serious accidents including one that crushed his spine: in adulthood, as a consequence, he stood less than five feet tall and was hunchbacked, though he never allowed physical stress to affect his career. He was an active sf fan from the late 1920s, together with Walter Dennis creating the Science Correspondence Club (or SCC) in early 1929 with the express purpose of uniting the growing number of small local science/sf fan clubs ...
Nathan, David
(1926-2001) UK author of The Story So Far (1986), in which the Near Future world is depicted as terminally suffering from human failures in the understanding and application of Ecology. [JC]
Swirsky, Rachel
(1982- ) US editor, poet and author, focusing in the latter capacity almost entirely on work in shorter forms; she began to publish work of genre interest with "Scene from a Dystopia" in Subterranean #4 (2006). By 2013 she had already released nearly fifty stories, almost all of them bristling with transgressive "violations" of the genre purities of the previous century; her work represents a strenuous and at times stringent argument for ...
Long, Paul
(? -? ) UK author of The Remnants of 1927 (1925) with Alan Wye, a Future War tale involving the Invasion of the UK by Russia. [JC]
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 ...