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Dark Future
Miniature model-based Wargame (1988). Games Workshop (GW). Designed by Richard Halliwell, Marc Gascoigne. / Dark Future is a game of highway combat, in which players take the role of "Sanctioned Ops" (freelance law enforcement operatives) or "Renegades" (members of criminal gangs). The gameplay is heavily influenced by the earlier Car Wars (1982); the major differences are that ...
Lively, Adam
(1961- ) UK author, son of Penelope Lively (1931- ) [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], in whose first novel, Blue Fruit (1988), an eighteenth-century traveller in the Far East takes ship back to an Alternate World version of twentieth-century America, though this Fantastic Voyage ...
Castle of Frankenstein
US letter-size saddle-stapled Media Magazine printed on newsprint. Published by Gothic Castle Publishing Company Incorporated. Editors included Calvin T Beck, Larry Ivie and Bhob Stewart. 25 issues 1962 to 1975 plus one Annual edition. Publication, though nominally quarterly, was very erratic. / This is widely considered the best of the US Monster Movies magazines, eclipsing ...
Anthony, Kaye
(? -? ) UK author of a mildly Satirical Utopia set in Near Future Britain, whose nature is suggested by its full title: The Passionate Calvary: Being an Introduction to the Conquest of England by the Forces of the Unknown and More Particularly to William Bundle, Grocer, Founder of the Peckham Guild of Thought, and King of England (1932); through the influence of ...
Bohnhoff, Maya Kaathryn
(1954- ) US author and (with her husband Jeff Bohnhoff) musician, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Hand-Me-Down Town" in Analog for mid-December 1989; several further stories and a serialization followed in that SF Magazine, and tales of Time Travel from Analog were later assembled as All the Colors of Time (coll 2012 ebook). Her short fiction ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...