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Odom, Mel [2]
(1950- ) US artist whose career began in the mid-1970s with erotic illustrations for Blue Boy and Playboy, followed by genre work in Omni and 1980s paperback covers for novels by various authors including Richard Adams, Paul Hazel and other writers of Fantasy, a genre well suited to his distinctive pencil-and-gouache ...
King, Harold
(1945-2010) US author whose name has also been wrongly recorded as a joint pseudonym. King concentrates his focus on Technothrillers like Paradigm Red (1975; vt Red Alert 1977), where events – in this case the sabotage of a nuclear facility – hover at the edge of sf. World War III (1982), a Tie novelizing the Television drama, sets the beginning of ...
Hot Stuff
Short US film (1956). Columbia Pictures. Directed by Jules White. Written by Felix Adler (screenplay) and Elwood Ullman (story). Cast includes Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe Palma (uncredited) and Philip Van Zandt. Seen in footage taken from Fuelin' Around (1949) are Shemp Howard, Christine McGuire, Hans Schumm (uncredited) and Emil Sitka. 16 minutes. Black and white. / This short film is a remake of Fuelin' Around, using much of its ...
Ware, Danie
(? - ) UK publicity and events manager for a large bookshop, and author; she began to publish work of genre interest with "Recruit" in Vivisepulture: Weird Tales of Twisted Imagination (anth 2011 ebook) edited by Andy Remic and Wayne Simmons. She is of sf interest for the Ecko sequence beginning with Ecko Rising (2013), whose protagonist, a ...
Hay, John
Working name of Australian author and farmer John Warwick Dalrymple-Hay (1928- ). In his sf novel, The Invasion (1968), World War Three begins after a US test missile devastates China, whose retaliation includes a nuclear attack on the coastal cities of Australia. Inland survivors band together to resist the invaders. [JC]
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...