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Collins, Max Allan
(1948- ) US author, best known for mysteries and thrillers, many written as Max Collins; under that form of his name he also wrote the Dick Tracy comic strip from 1977 to 1993, assembling a good deal of this output – much of which features sf-like Inventions and Villains with assorted Superpowers – in graphic collections like ...
Baker, Pip
(? - ) Working name of UK scriptwriter and author Philip Baker, almost always in collaboration with his wife, Jane Baker (? - ); they collaborated on the script for the film Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969), and on four Doctor Who television scripts, which were then novelized as ...
Nedram
Pseudonym of the unidentified UK author (? -? ), whose surname might plausibly be Marden, of John Sagur (1921), a Utopia in which the eponymous inventor of a new Power Source becomes dictator of the world and brings peace. [JC]
Marker, Chris
(1921-2012) Professional pseudonym of French filmmaker Christian Bouche-Villeneuve, a major figure in the Cinema of the Nouvelle Vague and beyond. Essentially a documentarist, but of a radically exploratory kind, he is primarily celebrated outside France for three interreferenced works, sometimes regarded as a thematic trilogy: the short sf film La Jetée, (made in 1962 and shown widely at ...
Jones, Robert F
(1934-2002) US journalist (mostly for Sports Illustrated) and author whose first novel of sf interest, Blood Sport: A Journey up the Hassayampa (1974; vt Ratnose 1975), follows a man and his son up the Hassayampa River, along whose banks all Times – the future, the present and the past – as well as in a sense all rivers, exist simultaneously, a suffusion of Archipelago venues rich enough to ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...