Researching Mike Chinn
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1018 people with the Chinn surname? In that year Chinn was ranked number 2575 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Mike means "Form of MICHAEL. who is like God" and is of Not available or unknown origin.
Records of Mike Chinn on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Mike Chinn and the Chinn Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 1174 people with the Chinn surname in the UK? Chinn is now ranked number 2953 for popularity in the UK. |
Chinn Family Tree Databases
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Chinn Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Chinn surname in the USA? Chinn is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Mike Chinn. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Mike Chinn
Mike Chinn
Mike Chinn is a horror, fantasy, science fiction and comics writer from Birmingham, England.
Chinn has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and Best Short Story.
He created the Anglerre fantasy series and Robot Kid science fiction books for the Starblazer comic, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. Starblazer has been resurrected as a licensed role-playing game from Cubicle 7 Entertainment, entitled Starblazer Adventures. Chinn has contributed to the RPG supplement Legends of Anglerre, based on the Anglerre world and characters that he created for Starblazer.
In 1998, Midlands-based, British Fantasy Award winning publisher The Alchemy Press published their first paperback: six short stories featuring Chinn's pulp adventure heroes, Damian Paladin and adventuress Leigh Oswin, The Paladin Mandates (which was itself short listed in the 1999 British Fantasy Awards, Best Collection and Best Short Story categories. In 2017, Pro Se Productions published further adventures of Paladin and Leigh in Walkers in Shadow.
He has edited four anthologies for The Alchemy Press: Swords Against the Millennium and three volumes of The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes.
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