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Staig, Laurence
(1950- ) UK journalist, teacher and author who has also written Horror as by Christopher Carr, and who began publishing sf with "Hello Hugo" in Twisted Circuits (anth 1987) edited by Mick Gowar, and whose vigorously-told sf and fantasy, usually for Young Adult readers, include The Network (1988), an Urban Fantasy [see The ...
Robotmen of the Lost Planet
US Comic (1952). One issue. Avon Periodicals, Inc (see Avon Comics). The comic is dominated by a three part serial, "Robotmen of the Lost Planet", scripted by Walter Gibson and drawn by Gene Fawcette. / In the future all the work is done by Robots, who resemble people save for their oversized elongated oval heads with oddly designed features. Cities have fallen into disrepair ...
Alternate Reality Game
Term used to describe a type of Videogame which shares much with the fictional Godgames described in such works as Robert Shea's and Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 (1966). There is a notable resemblance between many examples of the form and the (perhaps ...
Monsters [tv]
US tv series (1988-1991). Laurel Entertainment, Inc. Syndicated. Created by Richard P Rubinstein. Executive producer Richard P Rubinstein. Producers include Michael Gornick, Anthony Santa Croce and Bill Siegler. Directors include Gerald Cott, Ernest Farino, and Bette Gordon. Writers include Michael Bishop, Ron Goulart, Peg Haller, Richard Rubinstein, Robert Sheckley, Dan ...
Cowdrey, Albert E
(1933-2022) US author, much of whose nonfiction work, as an historian for the US Army Center of Military History, focused on the medical branches of the military; he ended this career as Chief of the Special History Branch of the US Army. As an author of fantasy and sf he began to publish work of genre interest with "The Lucky People" for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in February 1968 as by Chet Arthur, and continued under his own name with "The ...
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 ...