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Mohan, Kim
(1949-2022) US game designer, editor and author of the Cyborg Commando sequence comprising Planet in Peril (1987), Chase into Space (1988) and The Ultimate Prize (1988), all with Pamela O'Neill. Based on an outline by Gary Gygax (see also Games and Sports), the stories are adventurous and noisy, featuring Military SF-style exploits of a team of ...
Eisenstein, Phyllis
(1946-2020) US teacher – in later years increasingly active in this capacity – and author, whose first sf story was "The Trouble with the Past", written in collaboration with her husband, Alex Eisenstein, in New Dimensions 1 (anth 1971) edited by Robert Silverberg. She and her husband wrote other stories together, and he was influential also on work signed only by Eisenstein. Her first book, ...
Movie Monsters
1. US letter-size, perfect-bound Cinema magazine printed on newsprint-quality paper. Publisher: Atlas/Seaboard Comics. Editor: Jeff Rovin. Four issues, December 1974 to August 1975. / This publication was the short-lived Comics publisher's attempt to compete with Famous Monsters of Filmland, and was ...
Aliens Versus Predator
Videogame (1999). Rebellion. Platforms: Win. / The Aliens Versus Predator franchise began with the 4-issue Comic series Aliens vs. Predator (1990), written by Randy Stradley and published by Dark Horse, which already had licenses to produce Comics based on both Aliens (1986) and Predator (1987). This ...
Humanity Has Declined
Japanese animated tv series (2012). Original title Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita. Based on the Light Novel by Romeo Tanaka. AIC A.S.T.A. Written by Makoto Uezu. Directed by Seiji Kishi. Voice cast includes Nobuyuki Hiyama, Nana Mizuki, Mai Nakahara and Miyuki Sawashiro. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / Though remnant populations of humanity survive in scattered rural communities and some infrastructure still exists, ...
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 ...