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Enguídanos Usach, Pascual
(1923-2006) Spanish author, better known by his pseudonym George H White; one of the deans of Spanish sf. He wrote hundreds of Pulp-style novellas: sf, crime, war and Westerns for the Editorial Valenciana publishing house and later for the giant Bruguera. Between 1953 and 1978, he published 96 sf novellas and a handful of short stories as by George H White or Van S Smith. / Enguídanos Usach was the ...
Dr Satan
Mexican film (1966). Producciones Espada S. de R.L.. Directed by Miguel Morayta. Written by Sidney T Bruckner, José María and Fernández Unsáin. Cast includes Judith Ruiz Azcarraga, Quintín Bulnes, Joaquín Cordero, Alma Delia Fuentes and José Gálvez. 92 minutes. Black and white. / Scientist Dr Plutarco Aruzamena (Cordero) kidnaps and kills a beggar by injecting them with ...
Infocomics
Videogame series (1988). Infocom. / The Infocomics are a line of Comics which were sold as Videogames. Their plots are fully determined in advance, but at various points the reader can switch to a different character's view of the story; multiple readings are required to follow the entire plot. While their visual design and writing are generally unimpressive, the Infocomics are of ...
Balch, Frank
(1881-1937) US inventor and author, creator of an improved X-ray technology in 1916 which markedly reduced the time necessary for gaining an image; his sf novel, A Submarine Tour (1905) manages – in a narrative painfully derived from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) – to visit more than one Lost World, including Atlantis, in a submarine ...
Mills, Robert P
(1920-1986) US editor and literary agent, managing editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from its inception. His only published story was "The Last Shall be First" in that magazine's August 1958 issue. He assumed the editorship proper a month later with the September 1958 issue, following Anthony Boucher's resignation; he remained editor until March 1962 and continued thereafter in the role of consulting editor ...
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 ...