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Crow, The
Film (1994). Miramax presents in association with Entertainment Media Investment Corporation an Edward R Pressman film in association with Jeff Most productions. Directed by Alex Proyas. Written by David J Schow and John Shirley, based on the first four issues of the Comic book series The Crow (February-May 1989) by James O'Barr. Cast includes Angel David, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, David Patrick Kelly, Brandon Lee, ...
Fried, Seth
(? - ) US journalist and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre" (31 August 2009 One Story), but much of whose short fiction is nonfantastic, though "Manhattan in 11031 AD" (11 June 2015 The New Yorker) is a deft Ruins-And-Futurity exercise. He is primarily of sf interest for his first novel, The Municipalists (2019), an ...
Spacehawk
US Comic strip created by Basil Wolverton (1909-1978), who wrote and drew (including colouring) the stories. Spacehawk appeared in 30 consecutive issues of Novelty Press's Target Comics between June 1940 and December 1942 (vol 1 #5-vol 3 #10). Aside from the 30 strips, there were also three short text stories about our hero, two written by Wolverton. A similar Wolverton strip, Spacehawks, had debuted in ...
Maddox, Michelle
Pseudonym of Canadian author Michelle Rouillard (1971- ) for her sf romance Countdown (2008), whose heroine must cope with psychic distress and what seems to be an imprisoning Pocket Universe from which to be rescued. Horror and fantasy novels under her own name are not listed below. [JC]
Galactica: 1980
US tv series (1980). Universal MCA/ABC-TV. Creator, executive producer Glen A Larson. Most episodes written by Larson. Regular cast included Lorne Greene, Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass. Three pilot 50-minute episodes followed by seven 50-minute episodes. / The pilot, Galactica Discovers Earth, a three-part made-for-tv film sequel to the television series Battlestar Galactica ...
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 ...