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Colburn, Frona Eunice Wait
(1859-1946) US author of Yermah the Dorado (1897 as by Frona Eunice Wait; rev vt Yermah the Dorado: The Story of a Lost Race 1913 under her full name), which is set in the ninth millennium BCE, at a time when the Aryan empire of Atlantis governs a Utopia on the site of what will eventually become San Francisco; it is not technically a Lost Race tale. The congested plot, much ...
Fungies!, The
US animated tv series (2020-current). Cartoon Network Studios. Created by Stephen P Neary. Supervising Director Nick Edwards. Writers include Jonathan Feria-Moreno, Mark Galez, Stephen P Neary and Kyle Neswald. Voice cast includes Tama Brutsche, Jennifer Coolidge, Stephen P Neary and Harry Teitelman. 40 eleven-minute episodes. Colour. / The show is set during the age of the Dinosaurs and concerns a civilization of fungus people who are vaguely humanoid ...
Lewis, Henry Harrison
(1863-1947) US editor and author – sometimes as by Lieut Lionel Lounsberry and other pseudonyms or House Names – often of pulp stories for boys (see Dime-Novel SF). He served in various capacities with the publishers Street and Smith 1893-1898, for which firm he wrote a Lost World novel, The Treasure of the Golden Crater (4 February-22 April 1893 ...
Rosenman, John B
(1941- ) US academic and author, most of whose large output (which includes more than 300 stories) is horror, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Vacation" in The Horror Show for Fall 1983. His first novel, Beyond Those Distant Stars (2003), proved typical of much of his work, being a broad-gauge Space Opera whose protagonist (here a transfigured woman) may be a Cyborg ...
Follett, Ken
Working name of UK author Kenneth Martin Follett (1949- ), not to be confused with his cousin James Follett, best-known for extremely successful thrillers like Storm Island (1978; vt The Eye of the Needle 1978), but who, under pseudonyms, has also written some sf, mostly in his apprentice years. The Power Twins and the Worm Puzzle: A Science Fantasy for Young People (1976) as by Martin Martinsen ...
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 ...