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Intrigue, The
US silent film (1916). Pallas Pictures. Directed by Frank Lloyd. Written by Julia Crawford Ivers. Cast includes Cecil Van Auker, Howard Davies, Herbert Standing, Lenore Ulrich and Florence Vidor. 64 minutes. Black and white. / We are informed that "Guy Longstreet, a young American Scientist, has almost perfected his wireless X-ray apparatus, which is expected to kill, with mathematical precision, at a distance of 25 miles" (see ...
Marbo, Camille
Pseudonym of French journalist, editor and author Marguerite Appell Borel (1883-1969), awarded the Prix Femina in 1913 for her first novel, La Statue voilée ["The Veiled Statue"] (1913). In her sf novel, Le survivant (1918; trans Frank Hunter Potter as The Man Who Survived 1918), a soldier fatally wounded in the first days of World War One awakens to discover he has suffered ...
Hoskins, Robert
(1933-1993) US editor and author who began publishing sf with "Feet of Clay" in If for February 1958 as by Phillip Hoskins. He worked as a literary agent 1967-1968, and served as senior editor with Lancer Books 1969-1972, where he published the Infinity anthology sequence [see Checklist; see also Infinity] for which he was perhaps best known. Several other anthologies also appeared before he published his first novel, ...
Janvier, Thomas A
(1849-1913) US journalist and author, whose Lost Worlds novel, The Aztec Treasure House: A Romance of Contemporaneous Antiquity (1890), didactically describes a surviving remnant of the Aztec empire. In The Women's Conquest of New York [for subtitle see Checklist] (dated 1953 but 1894 chap) as by A Member of the Committee of Safety of 1908, Tammany Hall misguidedly enfranchises females, who run amok in ...
Wigglesworth, Michael
(1631-1705) UK-born preacher, poet and author, in Massachusetts from 1638. Although his book-length narrative poem about the End of the World, The Day of Doom; Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement (1662), cannot be usefully deemed a work of Proto SF, its vivid narrative unpacking of America's future experience of the Second Coming, as depicted in the Biblical Book of Revelations, became ...
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 ...