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Holden, Richard Cort
(1918-1984) US author, whose family was closely involved with Robert Frost (1874-1963), in whose sf novel, Snow Fury (1955), a scientist's experiments in Weather Control cause a Disaster in New England; the ultimate source of the problem may be an Alien lifeform. [JC]
Brautigam, Don
(1946-2008) US artist, active in the sf, Fantasy and Horror genres from 1974 until early in the new century, who worked mostly with acrylics and airbrush; he was sometimes credited in error as Don Brautigan and once as Don Brautigom. His first recorded sf cover was for the 1974 paperback reissue of The Galactic Rejects (1973) by Andrew J Offutt, which like other early work ...
Baird, Wilhelmina
Pseudonym of Scottish author Joyce Carstairs Hutchinson (1935- ), who began publishing sf with "Mantrap" in New Worlds for June 1961, writing this and other early work as by Kathleen James; she soon became inactive in the field, however, returning only as Wilhelmina Baird with the Cass sequence of novels set in a noirish Cyberpunk-like Near Future England, and comprising ...
Griffin, Sarah Maria
(?1988- ) Irish author whose first novel, the Near Future Young Adult Dystopian Space and Found Parts (2016), is set in a transfigured Dublin, which has been turned into an oppressive Keep by the survivors of a great Disaster a century before. Now known as the Pasture, the diminished ...
Salvage 1
US tv series (1979). Bennett/Katlemann Productions for ABC-TV. Created by Mike Lloyd Ross. Executive Producer Harve Bennett. Produced by Ralph Sariego, Norman S Powell. Directors included Ron Saltof, Dana Elcar. Writers included Ruel Fischmann, Gerald K Siegel, Jeri Taylor. Cast includes Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins (Skip Carmichael), J Jay Saunders (Mack) and Trish Stewart (Melanie Solzar). One 100-minute pilot film plus nineteen 50-minute episodes. ...
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 ...