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Kemono Friends
Japanese animated tv series (2017-current). Yaoyorozu (season 1), Tomason (season 2). Created by Mine Yoshizaki. Season 1 directed and written by Tatsuki; season 2 directed by Ryuichi Kimura and written by Takuya Masumot. Voice cast includes Kanae Ito, Yuu Kobayashi, Ai Nonaka, Yuka Ozaki and Aya Uchida. 24 24-minute episodes to date (plus numerous shorts). Colour. / This cheaply produced show (the CG animation is particularly primitive) was developed to ...
Corpsicle
One of the wittier items of sf Terminology, coined by Frederik Pohl as "corpse-sicle" in his contribution to the Cryonics symposium – also including Robert C W Ettinger – "Immortality Through Freezing" (August 1966 Worlds of Tomorrow), and contracted to "corpsicle" in Pohl's novel ...
Sawyer, Jamie
(1979- ) UK barrister and author whose work to date consists almost exclusively of contributions to his Lazarus Universe Military SF sequences. In the first of these, the Lazarus War series beginning with The Lazarus War: Artefact (2015), the chief ongoing protagonist Captain Conrad Harris of the Simulant Operations Programme undergoes repeated deaths leading his team in suicide missions over various locations ...
Street, A G
(1892-1966) UK farmer, broadcaster, journalist and author, in active service during World War One; best known for his essays and broadcasts on agricultural topics. He is of sf interest for one novel, Already Walks Tomorrow (1938), a Near Future Ecological tale reflecting his comprehensive knowledge and concern for the land; soil-exhaustion causes a worldwide environmental ...
Sanderson, Brandon
(1975- ) US author, of considerable significance for his Heroic Fantasies [for this term and for Robert Jordan see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], coming to wide notice with his continuations of Jordan's Wheel of Time sequence and his own Mistborn sequence [neither listed below]. Of sf interest is the Young Adult Reckoners series beginning ...
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 ...