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Scifi Dimensions
US Online Magazine featuring Interviews, reviews, articles and commentary and usually one piece of fiction posted per week, for which it paid up to professional rates depending on length. The site was run by John C Snider, Atlanta, Georgia and operated from February 2000 to February 2010. Initially it ran fiction solely by Snider himself but it soon welcomed contributions from others, including Kevin Ahearn, Steve Antczk, ...
Davis, Jake
Pseudonym of the unidentified author (? - ) – presumably US – of The Last Rangers sequence of sf Westerns, beginning with The Last Rangers (1992), and set in a post-Disaster environment soothingly reminiscent of the imagined nineteenth-century West, in which the Cybernetically enhanced Alamo Smith faces down grotesque foes. The ...
Gleig, Charles
(1862-1945) UK author active until at least 1927, most frequently the author of Young Adult tales set in various departments of the navy, which (for their era) are unusually attentive to the condition of working soldiers. This solicitude is articulated in The "Bogus Surveyor"; Or, a Short History of a Peculiar People (1894 chap) as by Whitewash, the Surveyor's Friend, which details the plight of sailors in the Nautical Survey Service, and in his sf ...
Johnson, George Clayton
(1929-2015) US screenwriter and author who began writing work of genre interest with "All of Us Are Dying" in the Slick magazine Rogue for October 1961, and who concentrated for most of his career on fantasy and horror work, some of it assembled in All of Us Are Dying and Other Stories (coll 1999). Scripts and Stories Written for The Twilight Zone (coll 1977; vt Twilight Zone Scripts and Stories 1996) and ...
It Came from Outer Space
Film (1953). Universal. Directed by Jack Arnold. Written by Harry Essex, based on a screen treatment by Ray Bradbury. Cast includes Richard Carlson, Charles Drake and Barbara Rush. 80 minutes. 3-D. Black and white. / This was Arnold's, and Universal's, first venture into the sf/Horror genre; it was also the first sf film to exploit a desert location (here the Mojave Desert), and the ...
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 ...