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Howarth, Lesley
(1952- ) UK author for Young Adult readers whose MapHead sequence, comprising MapHead (1994) and MapHead 2 (1997; vt MapHead: The Return 1997), describes the travails of the eponymous Alien from the Parallel World, whose skin is able to project maps, and his father during their life on the confusing planet Earth, home of his human ...
von Gunden, Kenneth
(1946- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Scrapings" in Ascents of Wonder (anth 1977) edited by David Gerrold, but whose first book of sf interest was nonfiction: Twenty All-Time Great SF Films (1982) with Stuart H Stock. He began publishing sf novels with StarSpawn (1990), which interestingly introduces an ethically advanced Hive-Mind ...
Mysticons
Canadian-American animated tv series (2017-2018). Nelvana, Corus Entertainment, The Topps Company. Created by Sean Jara. Directed by Matt Ferguson. Writers include Sean Jara, Stephanie Kaliner and Grant Sauve. Voice cast includes Valerie Buhagiar, Nicki Burke, Alyson Court, Stacey DePass, Joshua Graham, Katie Griffin, Evany Rosen and Ana Sani. 40 23-minute episodes. Colour. / Planet Gemina's Drake City blends Science and Sorcery, having ...
Target Comics
US Comic (1940-1949). Novelty Press Inc. 105 issues. Artists include Nina Albright, Bill Allison, Milt Hammer, Jack Warren and Basil Wolverton. Script writers include Harry Campbell, Ray Gill, Milt Hammer, Don Rico, Mickey Spillane, Jack Warren and Basil Wolverton. Initially 68 pages per issue, usually with 7-8 long strips, a few short strips and a short text story; down to 36 pages with 3-4 long strips, a couple of short strips ...
Cyberpunk [game]
Role Playing Game (1988). R Talsorian Games (RTG). Designed by Michael Pondsmith. / The original version of Cyberpunk is a quintessential eighties game. Both Cyberpunk 2013 (1988 RTG) designed by Michael Pondsmith and its more popular successor Cyberpunk 2020 (1990 RTG) designed by Michael Pondsmith, set seven years after the first edition, are highly evocative of both 1980s popular culture and such early ...
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 ...