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Night Strangler, The
Made-for-tv film (1973; vt The Time Killer). ABC Circle Films for ABC-Television. Directed and produced by Dan Curtis. Written by Richard Matheson, based on characters created by Jeff Rice. Cast includes Richard Anderson, Scott Brady, John Carradine, Wally Cox, Margaret Hamilton, Al Lewis, Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jo Ann Pflug and Nina Wayne. Make-up by William Tuttle. 74 minutes, expanded to 90 minutes for ...
Menville, Douglas
(1935- ) US author and editor. He edited Forgotten Fantasy 1970-1971 and, with R Reginald (whom see for further details), was advisory editor of the various Arno Press reprint book series; he and Reginald have also collaborated on several books and Anthologies. Solo, Menville has written ...
Winter, Mrs Elizabeth C
(1841-1922) Scottish-born poet and author, in USA most of her life, who also wrote as by Isabella Castelar; of some sf interest is The Spanish Treasure (24 September 1892-?? The New York Ledger as by Isabella Castelar; 1893) [see Checklist for further details], a Lost Race tale et in South America, with abductions and romance in the foreground. Winter is credited with the first use in this novel of the phrase "to turn the air blue". [JC]
Ness, Patrick
(1971- ) US author, in UK from 1999; though his work has mostly been designed for relatively mature Young Adult readers, two at least seem directed to the adult market. His first novel, The Crash of Hennington (2003), imports a herd of rhinos to an American seaside town, where they take up long-term residence, and strange events ensue (see Equipoise; ...
Bennett, Gary L
(1940- ) US physicist and author, author of at least two technical papers in collaboration with Robert L Forward, and of many pieces attacking American fundamentalism in its attempts to dismantle Evolutionary science; his sf novel, The Star Sailors (1980), deals with the conflict between a peaceful galactic civilization which is threatened by another, divisive galactic culture. ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...