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David, Peter
(1956-2025) US Comic book scriptwriter and author, two of whose earlier series – the Photon sequence, beginning with Photon #1: For the Glory (1987), and the Psi-Man sequence, beginning with Psi-Man: Mind-Force Warrior (1990), about a Quaker fighter for good – are signed David Peters. As David he mainly produced such fantasies as the Modern Arthur sequence, beginning with Knight Life (1987; ...
Aira, César
(1949- ) Argentine academic, translator and author, extremely prolific from the early 1980s, who began to publish work of genre interest with his first story, "Drácula en su dracumóvil, Frankenstein a pie" ["Dracula in his Dracumobile, Frankenstein on Foot"] in El Cielo for September-October 1968, a journal edited by Aira and Arturo H Carrera (1948- ). Beginning with a nonfantastic novel, ...
Arrested Development
Term used in this encyclopedia for the not uncommon scenario whereby humanity's perceived failure to realize its potential – assumed by John W Campbell Jr and others to be boundless – results from externally imposed shackles whose recognition can amply justify Paranoia. Removal of these constraints is likely to trigger a more or less traumatic Conceptual Breakthrough. ...
Greenwood, Ed
(1959- ) Canadian Game-World designer and author, whose development of the Forgotten Realms "campaign setting" for the Role Playing Game Dungeons & Dragons was singularly successful, one result being a large number of associated novels and similar fantasies [not listed below]. Greenwood is of some sf interest for The Iron Assassin; Or, A Clockwork Prometheus (2015), a ...
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
Japanese animated online tv series (2023). Studio DEEN. Based on the Manga Ōoku (2004-2020; vt Ooku: The Inner Chambers) by Fumi Yoshinaga. Directed by Noriyuki Abe. Written by Rika Takasugi. Voice cast includes Kikuko Inoue, Sanae Kobayashi, Hitoshi Kubota, Eriko Matsui, Mamoru Miyano, Tomokazu Seki and Setsuji Satoh. Ten episodes: the first is 80 minutes, the rest circa 25 minutes. Colour. / In ...
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 ...