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Sellers, Con
Working name of US author Connie Leslie Sellers (1922-1992), author of at least 100 novels in various genres. His sf work, a small and insignificant part of his output, begins with F.S.C. (1963); all of those noted in the Checklist are soft porn (see Sex). The list may be incomplete. [JC]
Erdman, Alan T
(1946- ) US author whose first novel, Maximum Security: The Mojave Project (2006), polemically examines the California penal system in 2032 (see Crime and Punishment), after a 2016 earthquake has caused the dispersal of facilities, and the Supreme Court's judging capital punishment to be unconstitutional has forced other changes. [JC]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1. Film (1956). Allied Artists. Produced by Walter Wanger. Directed by Don Siegel. Written by Daniel Mainwaring, Sam Peckinpah (uncredited), based on The Body Snatchers (10-24 December 1954 Collier's Weekly; 1955; vt Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1973; rev 1978) by Jack Finney. Cast includes King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. 80 minutes. Black and ...
Pavlou, Stel
(1970- ) UK screenwriter and author who did the script for The 51st State (2001), about a Drug fifty-one times more powerful than anything previously marketed; of more direct sf interest is Decipher (2001), set in Near Future Antarctica, where drillers discover a new Power Source, arousing Aliens from space while ...
Vernes, Henri
Pseudonym of Belgian author Charles-Henri-Jean Dewisme (1918-2021), in France 1946-1949, prolific producer of Pulp-style adventure novels in various genres from the mid-1940s. His most popular series, the Bob Morane sequence beginning with La Vallée Infernale ["The Valley of Hell"] (1953; trans anon as Bob Moran in the Valley of Hell 1960) ends, more than 200 volumes later, with ...
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 ...