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Paltock, Robert
(1697-1767) UK lawyer and author, known almost solely for what was probably his only work of fiction, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man: Relating Particularly his Shipwreck Near the South Pole; his Wonderful Passage Thro' a Subterranean Cavern into a Kind of New World [for full subtitle see Checklist] (dated 1751 but 1750 2vols), an example of Proto SF that, after half a century of neglect, became almost as well known in the ...
Leonhart, Rudolph
(circa 1832-1901) German-born author, in the USA from 1852, specifically in Minnesota, where he witnessed the Battles of New Ulm in 1862 between white settlers and the Sioux nation. Two of his novels are of some sf interest: The Treasure of Montezuma (1888), in which a Utopia is founded in the hidden valley of Friedenstahl with the aid of the eponymous hoard; and Either, Or (1893), a Satire on the Gilded ...
Predators
Film (2010). Twentieth Century Fox/Troublemaker Studios/David Entertainment. Directed by Nimród Antal. Written by Alex Litvak and Michael Finch, based on characters created by Jim and John Thomas. Cast includes Alice Braga, Adrien Brody, Lawrence Fishburne and Topher Grace. 107 minutes. Colour. / A hand-picked assortment of mercenaries and assassins are abducted and deposited on a planetary game preserve to be hunted for sport by the Predators. Producer Robert ...
Yandro
US Fanzine. 259 issues 1953-1986; edited from Indiana by Robert and Juanita Coulson, the last two issues by Robert Coulson alone; last issue not distributed until 1991. Originally published as Eisfa, Yandro was one of the longest-running large fanzines. Its contents, in the normal tradition, were not restricted to sf but included regular columns, articles, reviews and letters. Yandro won the 1965 ...
Brex, J Twells
(1873-1920) UK journalist and author, active from the 1890s, some of his work being contributed to Boys' Papers; The Civil War of 1915 (1912) describes a Near Future class war in Britain. "Scare-Mongerings" from the Daily Mail 1896-1914: The Paper That Foretold the War (anth 1914 chap) assembles claimed Predictions of World War One, some ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...