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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 ...

Bridges, T C

(1868-1944) French-born author, in UK from childhood and Florida from 1886 to 1894; he also wrote as Christopher Beck, Martin Shaw (which may have been a House Name) and John N Stanton. A prolific author of boys' fiction from 1899 or earlier, including some Sexton Blake Library stories, he wrote several sf tales for the oldest segment of his audience. Of greatest interest are The Secret of the Waters (1917), ...

Love

Film (2011). High Fliers. Written and directed by William Eubank. Cast includes Bradley Horne, Corey Richardson and Gunner Wright. 80 minutes. Colour. / In 2039 a lone astronaut is posted to the International Space Station after two decades' abandonment, but loses contact with Earth; in the years of isolation that follow he discovers the journal of a Civil War soldier recounting the 1864 discovery of a mysterious artefact in Arizona, which ...

Reizin, P Z

(?   -    ) UK Television and print journalist and author whose first novel, the Near Future Happiness for Humans (2018), explores the increasingly invasive interface between Homo sapiens and AIs, whose access to their human "users" is shown as having grown exponentially, with dangerous consequences when (as here) the AI in question gains consciousness. ...

Graham, Jo

(1968-    ) US author, whose early work, beginning with Black Ships (2008), which is based on Virgil's Aeneid (circa 29-19 BC), and is fantasy, as is Lost Things (2012) with Melissa Scott, which seems to be the first volume of a series of fantasies set in a modestly Steampunk 1920s, where gods and goddesses are discovered beneath Lake Nemi. Of sf interest is a series of ...

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 ...



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