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Files, Meg
(1946- ) US academic, poet and author whose Meridian 144 (1991) follows the complex life of its protagonist after a world-decimating accidental nuclear Holocaust – she had been scuba-diving in the South Seas at the time – interweaving memories of her stressed earlier life and action decisions necessary in the Post-Holocaust world as she attempts to create an ...
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Film (2003). An Intermedia and IMF production in association with C2 Pictures and Mostow/Lieberman Productions. Directed by Jonathan Mostow. Written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris from a story they developed with Tedi Sarafian using characters created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd. Cast includes David Andrews, Clare Danes, Kristanna Loken, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Nick Stahl. 109 minutes. Colour. / Time-travelling (see ...
Groom, Pelham
Working name of UK-born author Arthur John Pelham-Groom (1906-1978), in Singapore from 1954. He published some stories as A J Pelham-Groom in the 1930s, beginning with "Duel of Death" for Air Stories in 1935 and continuing with several other "Death" stories that verge on sf; a similar later title, David Farlow Takes the Air (1949), oddly describes a 1940 Invention that will soon keep the Luftwaffe at bay (no prior magazine publication, which ...
Midnight Mystery
US Comic (1961). 7 issues. Best Syndicated Features Inc. Artists include Paul Reinman, John Rosenberger and Ogden Whitney. Most scripts by Richard Hughes (see below). 3 or 4 strips and a one-page text story per issue. Each cover boasts "Astounding supernatural stories! Amazing science fiction! strange secrets!". Stories are a mixture of science fiction (including Science Fantasy), supernatural horror and Fantasy, with a picture and ...
Cité Foudroyée, La
French silent film (1924; vt The City Struck by Lightning; vt The City Destroyed; vt The Thunderstruck City; vt The Destruction of Paris). Films de France. Directed by Luitz-Morat. Written by Jean-Louis Bouquet (based on one of his short stories). Cast includes Alexis Ghasne, Jane Maguenat, Daniel Mendaille and Armand Morins. 70 minutes. Black and white. / Scientist Richard Gallee (Mendaille) ...
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 ...