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Barclay, Gabriel
A House Name used in 1940 for two stories in Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories, one by Manly Wade Wellman and one by C M Kornbluth. [JC/PN]
Dalton, Test
(1877-1945) US playwright and author, in whose Utopia, The Richest Man on Earth (1931), a reformed American capitalist founds a new society in Africa. [JC]
SAPS
Known usually by its acronym, the Spectator Amateur Press Society (1947-current) is one of the oldest APAs to emerge from sf Fandom; only FAPA (which see) and VAPA (Vanguard Amateur Press Association, 1945-1950) were of earlier origin. SAPS was first launched by the New Jersey fan group known as the Spectators, also founded in 1947 and short-lived, which left only the APA as a lasting legacy. Founding members included ...
Wind
Armenia animated film (1988; vt Veter). Armenfilm. Directed by Robert Sahakyants. Written by G Danielyan. 18 minutes. Colour. / As nuclear missiles launch (see World War Three), a junior officer at a military base inspects the passes of the arriving senior staff. Initially fairly normal, the staff become more unusual as time goes on – tailed, three-legged, four-legged, ...
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Film (1975). Warner Bros. Directed by Michael Anderson. Written by George Pal and Joseph Morheim, based on The Man of Bronze: Doc Savage and his Pals in a Novel of Unusual Adventure (March 1933 Doc Savage magazine; 1933) by Lester Dent writing as Kenneth Robeson. Cast includes Ron Ely and Paul ...
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 ...