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Hulbert, Archer Butler
(1873-1933) US academic, historian and author, whose Lost World tale, The Queen of Quelparte: A Story of Russian Intrigue in the Far East (1904), is set on the eponymous Island between Japan and China, where intrigues invoking ancient ways are required to save the land from imperial predators. [JC]
I'm a Monkey's Uncle
Short US film (1948). Columbia Pictures. Directed by Jules White. Written by Zion Myers. Cast includes Heinie Conklin (uncredited), Larry Fine, Dee Green, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Virginia Hunter, Joe Palma (uncredited), Nancy Saunders, Sy Schindell (uncredited), and Bill Wallace (uncredited). 18 minutes. Black and white. / In this unmemorable example of Prehistoric SF, the Three Stooges (at the time, Fine, Moe Howard, and Shemp Howard) are ...
Beware
US Comic (1953-1955). Trojan Magazines Inc. Fourteen issues numbered #13-#16, then #5-#14. Artists include Myron Fass, Art Gates, Harry Harrison, Henry Kiefer and Leo Morey. Scriptwriters include Richard Kahn, Jack Miller, Paul S Newman and Martin Smith. 36 pages, with four long strips and a text story. / Beware was acquired from Youthful Magazines (see ...
Barlow, James William
(1826-1913) Irish cleric and author (mostly on theological issues) whose sf novel, History of a World of Immortals without a God (1891 as by Antares Skorpios; vt The Immortals' Great Quest: Translated from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Library of a Continental University 1909 UK as James William Barlow), presents in note form its protagonist's record of his trip to Venus, where a large population has resided in a state of happy ...
Meet the Robinsons
Animated film (2007). Walt Disney Animation Studios (see The Walt Disney Company). Directed by Steve Anderson. Written by Jon Bernstein, Michelle Spitz and Don Hall & Nathan Greno, Aurian Redson, Joe Mateo and Anderson. Cast includes Jordan Fry and Wesley Singerman. 91 minutes. Colour. / Lewis (Fry) is a twelve-year-old orphan whose catastrophic Inventions scare off prospective adoptive parents, leading to ...
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 ...