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Corman, Roger
(1926-2024) US film-maker, a number of whose films are sf. Born in Los Angeles, he graduated in engineering from Stanford University in 1947, and spent a period in the US Navy and a term at Oxford University before going to Hollywood, where he began to write screenplays; his first sale was Highway Dragnet (1954), a picture he coproduced. He soon formed his own company and launched his spectacularly low-budget career. From 1956 he was regularly associated with ...
Scott, Donna
(1973- ) Working name of Donna Bond, a UK short story author, poet, stand-up comedian and editor who is a director, and former chair (2013-2019), of the British Science Fiction Association. She has worked as contributor, proofreader and editor for several Small Presses, with her first genre story "Fools Gold" appearing in Under the Rose (anth ...
Hawkins, Terence
(1956- ) US academic and author, active in the latter capacity from around 1995. His first novel, The Rage of Achilles (2009), reworks parts of Homer's Iliad (circa 800-700 BCE) in accordance to the arguments developed by Julian Jaynes in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976), in terms of which his rage would have been perceived by the ...
Goto, C S
(1970- ) Irish author, in the USA for some time, who has written almost entirely for the Warhammer 40,000 world dedicated to Role Playing Games and their Computer Role Playing Game analogues, beginning with "Blood of Angels" for Inferno in 2004, and continuing with Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (2004) and its various close or distant sequels and cousins. It ...
Clinton, George
(?1940- ) US funk musician, famous for his two connected groups, Parliament and Funkadelic. Many of the musicians from these collectives played on albums released under Clinton's name as solo albums. Computer Games (1982) has been especially heavily sampled by subsequent hip-hop and funk acts (the track "Atomic Dog" in particular); and the title track of You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...