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Tonkin, Peter

(1950-    ) UK best known for the Mariner sequence of nonfantastic contemporary maritime thrillers, and Master of Defense sequence of nonfantastic thrillers set in Elizabethan times [neither series is listed below]; he is of some sf interest for his first novel, Killer (1979), about an unprecedentedly savage killer whale (see Horror in SF); The Journal of Edwin Underhill (1981) is a ...

Prochnau, William

(1937-2018) US journalist variously with the Seattle Times, Washington Post and (from 1996) Vanity Fair as contributing editor. His one novel, Trinity's Child (1983) – somewhat in the vein of Fail-Safe (13-27 October 1962 Saturday Evening Post; 1962) by Eugene L Burdick and Harvey Wheeler – depicts 15 hours of a limited ...

Hungerford, Margaret W

(1855-1897) Irish author, active and prolific from about 1877 as a romantic novelist, becoming an author, as frequently the case, in order to support her husband and children; her best known novel is the nonfantastic Molly Bawn (1878), which contains the famous maxim: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". In America she usually published as by The Duchess. Hungerford is of sf interest for The Professor's Experiment (1895 3vols), one of the very last triple-deckers ...

Kiss Me Deadly

Film (1955). Parklane. Produced and directed by Robert Aldrich. Written by A I Bezzerides, based remotely on Kiss Me, Deadly (1952) by Mickey Spillane. Cast includes Maxine Cooper, Albert Dekker, Chloris Leachman, Ralph Meeker, Gaby Rogers and Paul Stewart. 105 minutes. Black and white. / This extraordinary film noir, now recognized as one of the greatest of its period, substitutes a boxful of radioactivity – a kind of ...

Collectible Card Game

Term used to describe a form of Card Game in which the cards are both collectible in the manner of trading cards (see Collectibles) and usable as a game. Individual cards typically come with their own rules for play, any potential conflicts being resolved by a set of "meta rules" which apply to the game as a whole. Such games are generally sold as starter sets or basic "decks", which contain the core rules and an initial set, or ...

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 ...



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