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Super-Mystery Comics
US Comic (1940-1949). Ace Magazines. 48 issues. Artists include Walter Davoren, Lou Ferstadt, Maurice Gutwirth, Jim Mooney and Mark Schneider. Script writers include Lou Ferstadt, Cliff Howe and Robert Turner. Initially 68 pages with six or seven long strips and a short text story (plus occasional short strips as filler) per issue; page count eventually reducing to 36 with long strips down to four. / Vol 1 #1 introduces Magno the Magnetic Man (see ...
Geis, Richard E
(1927-2013) US author, editor and sf fan, best known since 1953 for producing and contributing significantly to a fanzine, Psychotic, and later a Semiprozine, The Alien Critic, both of which were, confusingly, at different times known as Science Fiction Review. He has published other Fanzines. His vigorously ...
Space Rangers
Videogame (2002). Elemental Games (EG). Platforms: Win. / Space Rangers is a Space Sim game which includes features from an eclectic range of game forms. Notably, menu-driven text Adventures are used for many sub missions, including ones set on planets, and the default turn-based space combat model is replaced by an arcade game resembling Spacewar ...
S1m0ne
Film (2002). New Line Cinema presents a Niccol Films production. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol. Cast includes Catherine Keener, Elias Koteas, Jay Mohr, Al Pacino, Rachel Roberts, Winona Ryder and Pruitt Taylor Vince. 117 minutes. Colour. / A dying Computer Scientist (Koteas) presents a fading Hollywood auteur (Pacino) with the secret technology to create a digital "synthespian" ...
Colwall, James
(? -? ) UK author, who remains unidentified; it has been suggested that the setting of his Lost Race novel, The Coombsberrow Mystery (1890), on the Welsh border may hint that his surname, which is that of a town in that region, is pseudonymous. The novel unveils an Underground world inhabited by the devolved descendants of Romans (see Devolution). ...
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 ...