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Bellotto, Sam, Jr
(1946-2023) US editor, author, journalist and crossword compiler who is remembered for the Amateur Magazine (foreshadowing Semiprozines) Perihelion, which launched in April 1967 as Seldon Seen edited with Eric M Jones for the science-fiction club at Long Island University in Brooklyn; from the third issue it was retitled Perihelion with continued numbering and Bellotto as sole editor; this first run ended ...
Shunn, William
(1967- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Cut Without Hands" (in LDSF-2: Latter-Day Science Fiction, anth 1985, edited by Benjamin Urrutia). The longer stories in his first collection, An Alternate History of the 21st Century (coll 2007 chap), tellingly and concisely ironize the Clichés and tropes of Genre SF, but without destroying their use as toolkit. ...
Vanishing Shadow, The
US Serial Film (1934). Universal Pictures. Directed by Lew Landers (as Louis Friedlander). Written by Basil Dickey, Het Mannheim, George Morgan and Ella O'Neill. Cast includes Richard Cramer, James Durkin, Ada Ince, Walter Miller, Onslow Stevens. Twelve 20-minute episodes. Black and white. / Stanley Stanfield (Stevens) visits Professor Carl Van Dorn (Durkin), the world's greatest authority on electrical energy and a friend of his late father, who had ...
Blair, John
(1961- ) US author and poet who began publishing sf with A Landscape of Darkness (1990), an sf adventure in which a mercenary on a colony planet must pit himself against an Alien who wears the guise of a Japanese warrior. Though a plot of this sort offers many opportunities for action routines, Blair generally avoids the temptation. His second novel, Bright Angel (1992), similarly concentrates upon the complex ...
Great Science Fiction
One of the many reprint Digest-size magazines published by Sol Cohen's Ultimate Publishing Co., employing the reprint rights acquired when Cohen bought Amazing Stories and Fantastic. 21 issues were released, quarterly October 1965-Spring 1971, the first twelve under the title Great Science Fiction, #13-#16 as Science Fiction Greats and #17-#21 as SF Greats. / ...
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 ...