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Nautilus [tv]
UK tv series (2025). Production companies Moonriver TV and Seven Stories. Created by James Dormer. Executive producers include Johanna Devereaux and James Dormer. Produced by Cameron Welsh. Directors include Ben C Lucas, Michael Matthews and Isabelle Sieb. Writers include Sonya Desai, James Dormer and Matthew Parkhill. Cast includes Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont, Damien Garvey, Shazad Latif, Celine Menville, Pacharo Mzembe and Kayden Price. Ten 50-minute episodes. Colour. / This ...
McDermott, Shannon
(? - ) US author who identifies as Christian (see Religion); her first novel, The Last Heir (2009), which is set in a world partially described through generalized instancings from the SF Megatext, focuses on a dynastic dispute. After several fantasy novels, she returned to sf with the ongoing Eternities sequence beginning with The Time Door (2024), set on a ...
Schwartz, Julius
(1915-2004) US agent and editor, initially involved in sf Fandom (though he never lost interest in fan activities), and later in Comics. Schwartz met his lifelong friend and colleague Mort Weisinger at a meeting of the Scienceers sf group in 1931. Together in 1932 they published what may have been the first true Fanzine, The ...
Man with the Power, The
Made-for-tv film (1977). Universal Television for NBC-TV. Produced by Allan Baltar and Rod Holcombe. Directed by Nicholas Sgarro. Written by Baltar. Cast includes Persis Khambatta, Bob Neil and Tim O'Connor. 93 minutes. Colour. / US government agent Walter Bloom (O'Connor) recruits Eric Smith (Neil) to help foil an assassination plot against the visiting Indian princess Siri (Khambatta). Smith's father, it is revealed, was actually an Alien from an ...
van Scyoc, Sydney J
(1939-2023) US author, active in the Unitarian Church, who began publishing work of genre interest with Shatter the Wall (February 1962 Galaxy; 2016 ebook), and afterwards contributed stories regularly to the magazines. She soon became best known for her novels, beginning with the impressive Saltflower (1971), in which Aliens seed Earth to produce a new breed of "men" designed to create ...
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 ...