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Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
US animated tv series (2023-2025). Frederator Studios, Cartoon Network Studios. Based on Adventure Time (2007; 2010-2018; 2020-2021) created by Pendleton Ward and the characters Fionna and Cake created by Natasha Allegri. Developed by Adam Muto. Directed by Cole Sanchez, Ryann Shannon and Steve Wolfhard. Writers include Anthony Burch, Adam Muto, Hanna K. Nyström, Jack Pendarvis and Kate Tsang. Voice cast includes Felicia Day, ...
Russell, Gary
(1963- ) UK author who has concentrated almost exclusively on Ties for the Doctor Who universe, beginning with The New Adventures: Legacy (1994) in the Doctor Who: New Adventures sequence, his most recent title being Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos (2009); The Torchwood Archives (2008) is a tie to the Television spinoff series, ...
McWilliams, Kelly
(circa 1989- ) US author whose second novel, the Young Adult Agnes at the End of the World (2020), follows its protagonist from her upbringing, in a Near Future Dystopian Keep-like enclave dominated by a fundamentalist cleric (see Religion), into the larger world beyond, which seems about to succumb to a ...
Starlight SF
Early UK Online Magazine accessible via the Prestel dial-up viewdata system operated by British Telecom from 1979 to 1994. Edited by David Langford; media editor Barbara Conway; published from London by Micronet 800. Trial version late 1982; officially published 1983-1985. / Starlight SF, resulting from one of George Hay's initiatives to take sf into new media, was vaguely ...
Breuer, Miles J
(1889-1945) US physician and author of Czech origin who studied in Austin, Texas and Chicago, Illinois, was in active service during World War One in the US Medical Corps, and spent the majority of his life as a medical doctor in Nebraska. He began publishing work of genre interest with "The Adventures of the Bronze Mahadeva" for 10 Story Book in 1909, an early Pulp magazine. In the ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star ...