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Perrin, Don
(1964- ) Canadian author and game designer born in Germany, a former military officer; married to Margaret Weis from 1996 but later divorced. He has contributed to Weis's Dragonlance sequence and other Fantasy Role Playing Game franchises. Of sf interest is the Knights of the Black Earth/Mag Force 7 Space Opera trilogy opening ...
Trueman, Chrysostom
Pseudonym of UK author H Cowen (? -? ) who identified himself, under this pseudonym, as "Editor" of The History of a Voyage to the Moon (1864) [for full title see Checklist], a Proto-SF tale whose author remained unidentified until a copy was auctioned in 2014 at the Swann Galleries of New York, containing "an inscription identifying the author as H Cowen." As of 2023, this or some other similarly inscribed copy had ...
de Lamothe-Langon, Étienne-Léon
(1786-1864) French man of letters, politician, playwright and author, prolific from the turn of the century until his retirement in 1844. Much of his later work is Gothic Fantasy; he is of some sf interest for La Vampire ou la Vierge de Hongrie (1825; trans Brian Stableford as The Virgin Vampire 2011) as by Le B, which features a female Vampire who is not, in this case, a ...
New Worlds
Long the leading UK sf magazine (and an Original-Anthology series for two sections of its chequered career), publishing 222 issues during a span of 51 years ([July] 1946-August 1997), but including a 12-year hiatus. New Worlds, though it had volume numbers up to #177, has always been numbered consecutively (in its magazine incarnations); the first five were undated. / New Worlds was a development from a pre-World War Two ...
By Dawn's Early Light
US made-for-tv film (1990). HBO Original Films. Directed by Jack Sholder. Written by Bruce Gilbert from the novel Trinity's Child (1983) by William Prochnau. Cast includes Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay (as Rebecca DeMornay), James Earl Jones, Martin Landau, Darren McGavin and Rip Torn. 100 minutes. Colour. / This was one of the last nuclear-war films of the Cold War era, and deals with an ...
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 ...