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Sorel, Edward
(1929- ) US illustrator, cartoonist and author born Edward Schwartz; he changed his name legally. In Moon Missing: An Illustrated Guide to the Future (1962) the Moon disappears and the early 1960s are satirized. The illustrations are more satisfyingly vindictive than the text. [PN]
Blood of the Vampire
UK film (1958). Eros Films UK/Universal-International US. Produced by Robert S Baker and Monty Berman. Directed by Henry Cass. Written by Jimmy Sangster. Cast includes Vincent Ball, Victor Maddern, Barbara Shelley and Sir Donald Wolfit. 87 minutes. Colour. / Transylvania, 1874: the alleged Vampire Dr Callistratus (Wolfit) is staked through the heart by the usual mob of villagers. His body is recovered by his traditionally hunchbacked assistant Carl ...
Arcane
French/US animated tv series (2021-current; vt Arcane: League of Legends). Riot Games, Fortiche Production. Created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee, based on the League of Legends multiplayer Online World Videogame. Directed by Pascal Charrue and Arnaud Delord. Written by Christian Linke and Alex Yee. Voice cast includes Kevin Alejandro, JB Blanc, Katie Leung, Harry Lloyd, Ella Purnell, Jason Spisak, Hailee ...
Muir, Willa
(1890-1970) Scottish poet, translator and author, most of whose translations, like those of Franz Kafka, were done in collaboration with her husband Edwin Muir [who see for further details]; she also published some solo translations as by Agnes Neill Scott. It has been plausibly argued that she was the senior figure in the Muirs' career as translators, certainly on grounds of technical facility. On the basis of their ...
Smith, H Allen
(1907-1976) US newspaperman and author, mostly of humorous sketches (from about 1922) and books, often for the Saturday Evening Post. In his first sf novel, Mr Klein's Kampf, or His Life as Hitler's Double (1939), a Jew takes over from his look-alike, Hitler, and spoofishly declares Germany to be the new Zion. The Age of the Tail (1955), also a comic Satire, depicts the effect on a ...
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 ...