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Greenwood, Ed
(1959- ) Canadian Game-World designer and author, whose development of the Forgotten Realms "campaign setting" for the Role Playing Game Dungeons & Dragons was singularly successful, one result being a large number of associated novels and similar fantasies [not listed below]. Greenwood is of some sf interest for The Iron Assassin; Or, A Clockwork Prometheus (2015), 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 ...
Contamination: Alien Arriva Sulla Terra
Film (1981; vt Contamination; vt Alien Contamination). Cannon. Directed by Luigi Cozzi. Written by Cozzi. Cast includes Lisa Hahn, Louise Marleau, Martin Mase, Ian McCulloch and Siegfried Rauch. 85 minutes. Colour. / "In Italy," says Cozzi, "when you bring your script to a producer, the first question he asks is ... What film is your film like?" This is one of several competing Italian attempts to exploit the success of Alien (1979). Its ...
Pinter, Jason
(1979- ) US editor and author, active in the latter capacity from the publication of The Mark (2007), the first volume in his Henry Parker series of nonfantastic detective thrillers [not listed below] which shares some generic features but should not be confused with John Connolly's Charlie Parker series. After a fantasticated tale for younger children, Zeke Bartholomew: SuperSpy (2011), Pinter ...
Douglass, Ellsworth
Pseudonym of US real-estate speculator, insurance broker and author Elmer Dwiggins (1863-1933), whose enterprises (for which he was jailed in 1919-1920) took him to various countries around the turn of the century; his fiction, including his one sf novel, was written during these travels. His first story, "The Wheels of Dr Ginochio Gyves" (September 1899 Cassell's Magazine) with Edwin Pallander, describes a gyroscopically controlled ...
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 ...