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Outer Space Monsters
Letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine printed on a mix of newsprint and glossy paper. Published by Condor Books. Editor: Timothy Green Beckley. One issue only, February 1990. / This publication consists mostly of black and white photographs from various Horror and sf films, such as The Abyss (1989) and Strange Invaders (1983), by not ...
Hades Project Zeorymer
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) series (1988-1990; vt Meiou Project Zeorymer; vt Project Zeorymer; vt Zeoraima – Project Hades). AIC and Artmic. Based on the Manga of the same name by Yoshiki Takaya (writing as Chimi Morio). Directed by Toshihiro Hirano. Written by Shō Aikawa. Voice cast includes Chieko Honda, Toshihiko Seki and Mayumi Shou. Four episodes of circa 28 minutes. Colour. / ...
Orman, Kate
(1968- ) Australian author, sometimes resident in the UK; though some of her sf short stories are independent efforts, as for her book production she has concentrated exclusively to date on Ties to the Doctor Who universe, including several Doctor Who: The New Adventures tales, beginning with Doctor Who: The New Adventures: The Left-Handed Hummingbird (1993). She was the first female writer to ...
Oliver, Chad
Working name for his sf of US anthropologist and author Symmes Chadwick Oliver (1928-1993). Oliver was born in Ohio but spent most of his life in Texas, where he took his MA at the University of Texas (his 1952 thesis, "They Builded a Tower", being an early academic study of sf); he then took a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and became professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he remained in some ...
Old Scout, An
House Name for authors working for the Boys' Papers publisher, Frank Tousey. Of sf interest under this name is Lost in the Great Basin (5 October-30 November 1889 The Boys of New York as by Kit Clyde 1907), which sets an Underground Lost World within a Western frame; the inhabitants of this world boast a complex civilization, which does not save ...
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 ...