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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
American tv series (1954). Syndicated. Produced by Roland D Reed. Directed by Hollingsworth Morse. Written by Fritz Blocki, Carl K Hittleman, Arthur Hoerl, Marianne Mosner and Warren Wilson. Cast includes Scotty Beckett, Maurice Cass, Richard Crane, Robert Lyden, Jimmy Lydon, Sally Mansfield, Charles Meredith, Patsy Parsons and Reginald Sheffield. 39 30-minute episodes. Black and white. / Rocky Jones (Crane), commander of the Spaceship the ...
Armstrong, Kelley
(1968- ) Canadian author, whose many fantasy novels, usually published in series, and often with a romance timbre, are not listed below. She is of sf interest for the Rip Through Time sequence beginning with A Rip Through Time (2022), whose protagonist finds herself via Timeslip in various predicaments, housed in various bodies, in various eras. Some echoes of Marghanita ...
R. E. M.
UK Semiprozine published by REM Publications, London, edited by Arthur Straker, who was also the publisher (co-publisher on issue #1 with Andrew Coates). A4 size. It saw just two issues, the first dated Spring/Summer 1991, the second undated but distributed in November 1992. In his first editorial Straker acknowledged the role that Interzone had played in re-establishing British short-fiction sf, and stated that REM would look ...
Hot Stuff
Short US film (1956). Columbia Pictures. Directed by Jules White. Written by Felix Adler (screenplay) and Elwood Ullman (story). Cast includes Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe Palma (uncredited) and Philip Van Zandt. Seen in footage taken from Fuelin' Around (1949) are Shemp Howard, Christine McGuire, Hans Schumm (uncredited) and Emil Sitka. 16 minutes. Black and white. / This short film is a remake of Fuelin' Around, using much of its ...
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 ...