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H P Lovecraft
Also known as "Lovecraft". US acid-rock band, named, obviously, in honour of H P Lovecraft. Their first two of the band's albums (H.P. Lovecraft, 1967; H.P. Lovecraft II, 1969) include a number of covers of songs by the Beatles and Moby Grape, but also two striking song versions of Lovecraftian short stories: the hallucinogenic anthem "The White Ship" on the former, and "At the Mountains of Madness" on the latter, referencing Lovecraft's ...
Island Claws
Film (1980; vt Giant Claws). Produced by Ted Swanson. Directed by Hernan Cardenas. Written by Jack Cowden and Ricou Browning from a story by Hernan Cardenas and Colby Cardenas. Cast includes Dick Callinan, Steve Hanks, Robert Lansing, Jo McDonnell and Barry Nelson. 90 minutes, cut to 82 minutes. Colour. / Reporter Jan Raines (McDonnell) visit a small Island off the Florida coast to report on Dr McNeal (Nelson), who is working to improve crabs as a ...
Korn, M F
(1958- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Trouble with Xenodes" in Weird Stories for January 1989. Though largely inclined toward fantasy and Horror he has written a number of slightly desultory sf stories, most of them assembled in The Spectral Carnival Show and Other Stories (coll 1998; rev vt Aliens, Minibikes and Other Staples of Suburbia 2001) and ...
Mellick, Carlton, III
(1977- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Playroom" in Parchment Symbols for December 1999. He has been recognized as the central creator of what he may himself have dubbed Bizarro Fiction (not connected to the earlier Marvel Comics Supervillain Bizarro or the DC Comics Bizarro world), a term which describes stories whose narratives are ...
Moore, Ronald D
(1964- ) US screenwriter and Television producer who attended Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and whose first work of genre interest was the script for "The Bonding" (23 October 1989), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994). He became co-producer and – for the final year – producer of this series, writing or co-writing 27 episodes in all, ...
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 ...