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Stoppard, Tom
Working name of Czech-born playwright and screenwriter Tomáš Straussler (1937-2025), in the UK since 1946, the Stoppard surname being acquired from his stepfather when his widowed mother remarried in 1945. His early dramatic work was characterized by extravagant wit and wordplay, and an Absurdist application of logic to surreal or insane situations. Following the broadcast of several Radio plays, his ...
Clapham, Mark
(1976- ) UK author of fiction and nonfiction about Comics, Television and Videogames, whose first novel was a Tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Beige Planet Mars (1998) with Lance Parkin. This was followed by other Doctor Who-related works [see Checklist ...
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Animated film (2009). Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Written by Lord and Miller. Cast includes Anna Faris and Bill Hader. 90 minutes. Colour. / Lord and Miller made their Cinema debut with this loose adaptation of Judi and Ron Barrett's children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (1978), having previously written and directed the animated Television ...
Mitchell, V E
Working name of US author Victoria Estelle Mitchell Gustafson (1954-2017), married to Jon Gustafson, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Captain" in The Moscow Moffia Presents Rat Tales (anth 1987) edited by Jon Gustafson (her husband) and Dean Wesley Smith under the joint pseudonym Smith Gustafson. Mitchell wrote four novel Ties ...
Mohan, Steven, Jr
(1967-2024) US author who after graduating from Northwestern University and the University of Phoenix served as a US Navy officer for four years. He began to publish work of genre interest with "Conservator" in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XIV (anth 1998) edited by Dave Wolverton. His main focus was on Military SF, chiefly in association with the BattleTech ...
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 ...