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Quick, Jonathan
Pseudonym (playing on Jonathan Swift) of UK authors Cecil Eldred Hughes (1875-1941) and Harold Begbie, who see for details. [JC]
Pepper's Adventures in Time
Videogame (1993). Sierra On-Line. Designed by Gano Haine, Jane Jensen, Josh Mandel, Lorelei Shannon. Platforms: DOS, Win. / Pepper's Adventures in Time is a graphical Adventure marketed as edutainment for Young Adults which many older players have also found appealing. Participants alternate between the roles of the eponymous character, a sassy young ...
Duggan, Ervin S
(1939- ) US commentator, President from 1993 to 1999 of the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and author of Against All Enemies (1977) with Ben J Wattenberg, a Future War novel told from a moderately conservative standpoint. [JC]
Adventures into the Unknown
US Comic (1948-1967). 174 issues. American Comics Group. Artists include Ken Bald, Pete Costanza, Harry Lazarus, Ed Moritz, Paul Reinman, John Rosenberger, Kurt Schaffenberger, Charles Sultan and Ogden Whitney. Script writers include Richard Hughes and Frank Belknap Long. 52 pages until #33, usually with 5 long strips, plus a few 1-2 page short strips and text stories; 36 pages from #34, usually with 3-4 long strips plus one or ...
Harness, Charles L
(1915-2005) US patent attorney and author, born in Texas. His first published story was "Time Trap" in Astounding for August 1948, a convoluted Time-Loop tale involving the working of tremendous forces off-stage and a quasi-transcendental experience as the hero goes back in time to remake the world. His subsequent output for the next several years showed a remarkable consistency in echoing and developing these themes. His first two novels, ...
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 ...