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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Moore, C L
(1911-1987) US author, collaborator with Henry Kuttner whom she married in 1940, and with whom she had collaborated since 1937 (see below). Before her intimate working association with Kuttner, she had, however, already achieved fame with her first story, "Shambleau" in Weird Tales for November 1933, a femme fatale tale of a psychic Vampire set on a ...
Dream Magazine
UK Semiprozine printed in a consistently neat A5 format, initially of 48 pages but some later issues running to 76 or more pages. It was published and edited by Trevor Jones (1944-1993) in Godmanchester, Huntingdon, and became a Weller Publication from issue #10 (March 1987), the imprint of George P Townsend, who took over as editor from #18 (Winter 1988) when he dropped his own magazine New Moon Quarterly. Dream ...
King and the Mockingbird, The
French animated film (1980). Original title Le Roi et l'Oiseau. Les Films Paul Grimault, Les Films Gibé, Antenne 2. Directed by Paul Grimault. Written by Paul Grimault and Jacques Prévert. Voice cast includes Jean Martin, Pascal Mazzotti, Renaud Marx and Agnès Viala. 87 minutes. Colour. / Begun in 1948 as an adaption of Hans Christian Andersen's The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep (original title Hyrdinden Og Skorstensfejeren in ...
Kristoff, Jay
(1973- ) Australian advertising executive and author whose series, variously sf and fantasy, some with Amie Kaufman, are all designed for the Young Adult market, though he has indicated that some befit the "older young adult" market; he has written no solo books. For The Illuminae Files sequence with Amie Kaufman see her entry. Kristoff's ...
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 ...