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Night Cry
US Digest-sized magazine (1984-1987) published by TZ Publications Inc of New York; edited by T E D Klein (#1-#3) and then Alan Rodgers (#4-#11). Eleven issues in all, dated from 1984 (no month or season given) to Fall 1987. / This weird-fiction spinoff from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine began with a Twilight Zone special ...
Gerani, Gary
(?1955- ) US author of works about Cinema and Television, and also screenwriter, who began publishing in the early 1970s in The Monster Times and similar Media Magazines. His Fantastic Television: A Pictorial History of Sci-Fi, the Unusual and the Fantastic from Captain Video to the Star Trek Phenomenon and Beyond ...
Coleridge, Christabel
(1843-1921) UK author, grand-daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), whose works tend to promulgate Christian sententiae; The Thought-Rope (1898) is a sentimental tale of Telepathy. [JC]
John, Elton
(1947- ) UK singer-songwriter, prolific and enduringly popular. A characteristic John composition is a short, poppy love song, but he has recorded a small number of sf tracks, including: "Bad Side of the Moon" (on 11-17-70, 1971) about a remorseful convict in a Prison situated on the lunar dark side; "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long Long Time)" (on Honky Château, 1972), a plaintive version of Ray ...
Poe, Stephen Edward
(1936-2000) US advertising man and author, author of the nonfiction work The Making of Star Trek (1968) as by Stephen E Whitfield (the surname being his stepfather's) and Gene Roddenberry, producer of the original Star Trek series which is the book's subject. The idea for the book was Poe's, as indeed was the actual writing; but Roddenberry gave considerable help and support and is credited along with Whitfield ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...