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Levi, Primo
(1919-1987) Italian industrial chemist, autobiographer, essayist and author; a survivor of Auschwitz, incarcerated there for eleven months in 1944-1945 (see World War Two), an experience which profoundly afflicted his subsequent life as a Survivor, serving not only as the declared subject of his first book, Se questo é uorno (1947; trans Stuart Woolf as If This Is a Man 1959; vt Survival in Auschwitz 1961), but ...
Barron, Neil
(1934-2010) US bibliographer and book editor, trained as a librarian, who received a Pilgrim Award in 1982 for his work; he has produced some of the liveliest and most readable scholarship in sf, notably in the five well-researched editions of Anatomy of Wonder: Science Fiction (1976; exp vt Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction: Second Edition 1981; further exp vt ...
Berry, Kevin
(1965- ) New Zealand author, whose collaborations with his wife Diane Berry are jointly signed K D Berry. Their work together is fantasy. Teleport (2017) mildly engages with Telepathy. [JC]
Andromeda Conquest
Videogame (1982). Avalon Hill. Designed by David Peterson. Platforms: AppleII, Atari8. C64, DOS, PET, TRS80. / Andromeda Conquest is a game of turn-based interstellar warfare which uses text menus and somewhat rudimentary two-dimensional displays to represent conflict between various Galactic Empires. Each player begins as absolute ruler of a species which has recently invented a ...
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
US juvenile tv series (1976). Created by Ken Spears, and Joe Ruby. Produced by Sid and Marty Krofft Television Productions for ABC-TV (see The Krofft Brothers). Directors include Walter C Miller and Jack Regas. Writers include Duane Poole and Dick Robbins. Cast includes Norman Alden, Deidre Hall and Judy Strangis. Eight 24-minute episodes. Colour. / Lori (Hall) and Judy (Strangis) – no last name is given for either – are magazine ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...