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White, Ted
Working name of US editor and author Theodore Edwin White (1938-2026), who also wrote as by Ron Archer, Norman Edwards and William C Johnstone. He was co-editor 1958-1969 of the noted Fanzine Void founded by Gregory Benford and Jim Benford. After working as assistant editor for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1963-1968, he became the sometimes ...
Perutz, Leo
(1882-1957) Austrian playwright and author, active from around 1905, in active service during most of World War One, being wounded more than once but continuing to write; he emigrated to Palestine [now Israel] in 1938 after the Anschluss. Most of his novels are baroque phantasmagorias, irradiated by parodic transformations of popular genres, including sf. His work, much of which has now been translated into English, has been ...
Ayckbourn, Alan
(1939- ) UK playwright, active from 1959 with at least ninety plays produced; much of his work verges into Fantastika, some of which is of strong specific sf interest, including a triad of dramas which might almost (but not quite) be thought of as a loose series devoted to Androids in distressed English domestic environments. Henceforward (performed 1987; 1988) is set in an oppressive ...
Concrete Revolutio
Japanese animated tv series (2015-2016). Original title Concrete Revolutio: Chōjin Gensō; Season 2 also known as Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song. Bones. Created and written by Shô Aikawa. Directed by Seiji Mizushima. Voice cast includes Kaito Ishikawa, Tokuyoshi Kawashima, Eriko Nakamura, Ayana Taketatsu, Kenichi Suzumura, Aki Toyosaki and Sumire Uesaka. 24 24-minute episodes. Colour. / Concrete Revolutio is an ...
Évolution [film]
French film (2015). Le Films du Worso, Noodles Production, Volcano Films. Directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović. Written by Hadžihalilović, Alante Kavaite and Geoff Cox. Cast includes Max Brebant, Roxane Duran and Julie-Marie Parmentier. 81 minutes. Colour. / On an Island populated entirely by apparently sickly 10-year-old boys, women who may or may not be their mothers, and their nurses, strange experiments are being performed on the boys, ...
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 ...
