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Sarrantonio, Al
(1952-2025) US editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ahead of the Joneses" in Asimov's for March 1979. Much of his work was horror, sometimes tinged with sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Worms (1985), a Gothic tale set in Massachusetts with hints of H P Lovecraft; and the Equipoisal Moonbane ...
Berezin, Fedor
(1960- ) Russian-Ukrainian soldier, author and, subsequently, politician, once lauded by the New Yorker as the "Russian Tom Clancy" for his prolific output of novels involving War and Military SF. He studied at the Engels Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command Air Defense School of the USSR, graduating in 1981 and serving as ...
Arikawa Hiro
(1972- ) Japanese author whose work, ostensibly in the Light Novel field, has acquired a weight and respect that has garnered high critical praise, including the Seiun Award, often being published in the increasingly rare hardback format. She swiftly established herself in the first decade of the twenty-first century as a guru for Japan's Millennials, tailoring fiction to meet the ...
Bullbuster
Japanese animated online tv series (2023). NUT. Directed and written by Hiroyasu Aoki. Voice cast includes Shōya Chiba, Taiten Kusunoki, Shin-ichiro Miki, Asami Seto, Yūki Takada and Ken Uo. Twelve 24 minute episodes. Colour. / Ryugan Island's inhabitants had left following Monster attacks and the presence of toxic gas. Namidome Industries, a subsidiary of Shiota Chemical, had been building a desalination plant on the ...
Wunsch, Sacha
(? - ) Canadian author whose first novel, the Young Adult Lies My Memory Told Me (2021), unpacks the full story behind an immensely popular device, which is the Invention of the protagonist's parents: users enter into chosen Virtual Realities through narratives embedded in the "Enhanced Memory" unit. But these narratives seem to take their ...
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 ...