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Taylor, C Bryson
(1880-1936) US author, active from 1898; of some sf interest is her first novel, In the Dwellings of the Wilderness (1904), in which the Reincarnated spirit of a woman buried alive in Ancient Egypt becomes a She figure who may well be a Vampire. Nicanor Teller of Tales: A Story of Roman Britain (1906), comes close to the fantastic in ...
Amateur Magazine
A term used to distinguish between those magazines which are produced professionally (see Prozine) and those that are produced for the sheer pleasure of the product without financial consideration. For the purposes of this encyclopedia, Amateur Magazines are split into Fanzines, which are produced by fans for other fans and tend to be dedicated to the discussion and review of science fiction, with varying degrees of seriousness, and those ...
Howard, Scott Alexander
(? - ) Canadian academic and author whose first novel, The Other Valley (2024), is shaped around what might be called a geography of Time Travel: the tale is set in three valleys, one twenty years before and one twenty years after the seemingly contemporary central valley or Zone. A governing body known as the Conseil attempts to manage the temporal dynamics ...
Elgin, Suzette Haden
Working name of US poet, author and teacher Patricia Anne Suzette Wilkins Elgin (1936-2015) for her sf. She combined writing with a professional specialization in Linguistics, having a PhD in linguistics from the University of California, San Diego; she was a professor of linguistics at San Diego State University 1972-1980, subsequently emeritus, and published widely in her specialist field. Her sf began in May 1969 with "For the Sake of Grace" in The ...
Cocoon
Film (1985). Fox-Zanuck-Brown. Directed by Ron Howard. Written by Tom Benedek from a story by David Saperstein. Cast includes Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon and Tahnee Welch. 117 minutes. Colour. / Aliens disguised as humans come to Earth to revive their kinfolk who were abandoned millennia ago in cocoons on the ocean floor; the ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...