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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Skurzynski, Gloria
(1930- ) US author from the 1970s of fiction and nonfiction for Young Adult markets; in her first sf novel, Cyberstorm (1995), a young girl finds herself trapped in a Virtual Reality room meant to re-create a world of happy memories for its elderly owner; wrongness soon pervades the enclave. Skurzynski's Virtual War Chronologs sequence beginning with Virtual War (1997) ...
Frazer, Shamus
Working name of UK author James Ian Arbuthnot Frazer (1912-1966), whose first sf novel, Acorned Hog (1933), depicts a socialist Dystopia established in a Near Future Britain where the universities are closed and students sent back to the soil; by the end of the tale, however, a restored monarchy turns to a savage feudalism, with all industry peremptorily banned to America; the Satire is ...
District 9
Film (2009). Peter Jackson presents in association with Tristar Pictures and Block/Hanson a WingNut Films production/with the assistance of the Department of Trade and Industry South Afirca. Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Cast includes Jason Cope, Sharlto Copley, Vanessa Haywood and David James. 112 minutes. Colour. / 1983. Narrated backstory. A crewless interstellar ship is detected hovering over ...
Miller, Warren H
(1876-1960) US author who specialized in fiction for boys, in particular the Boy Explorers sequence, of which The Boy Explorers in Darkest New Guinea (1921), The Boy Explorers in Borneo (1922), The Boy Explorers and the Ape-Man of Sumatra (1923) and The Boy Explorers on Tiger Trails in Burma (1925) all feature Lost World elements, the third volume also incorporating ...
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 ...