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Crown, Peter J
(? - ) Author, perhaps pseudonymous, of the unremarkable, feebly erotic sf novel Father of the Amazons (1961), whose only edition gives Peter J Crown on the title page but "Pete Lewis" on the cover. In the twenty-seventh century a Starship crash-lands on an unexplored planet twenty light-years from Earth; the protagonist, sole survivor, is captured first by "Amazon" women (males are in short supply and mostly ...
Shadow Men, The
Film (1997). Promark Entertainment Group and Spectacor Films. Directed by Timothy Bond. Written by Eric Miller, Justin Stanley. Cast includes Sherilyn Fenn, Eric Roberts and Dean Stockwell. 91 minutes. Colour. / A drab, low-budget dramatization of the Men in Black (see UFOs) mythology, The Shadow Men plays like a mediocre X-Files (1993-2002) episode expanded to feature length. An American family is abducted by a ...
O'Donnell, Kevin, Jr
(1950-2012) US author with a BA in Chinese Studies who spent several years in the Far East. His first published sf was "The Hand Is Quicker" (October 1973 Analog), and over fifty short stories followed before the turn of the century. His first novel, Bander Snatch (1979), curiously blends pulp Clichés and real inventiveness in its tale of a ghetto mobster who has telepathic powers and learns to use them ...
City of the Living Dead!
US Comic (1952). One issue. Avon Periodicals, Inc (see Avon Comics). 36 pages. Artists include A C Hollingsworth, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Harry Lazarus and Norman Nodel. Four long strips and a two-page text story. / The title story has Professor Bob Martin and his wife Anne leading a small archaeological dig at the Aztec City of Quetana in Mexico; this despite warnings from the locals that 50 years previously escapees from a ...
Vortex, The
US Amateur Magazine, two issues 1947, edited by Gordon M Kull and George R Cowie from San Francisco. The Vortex is listed in some indexes as a Semiprozine because of the production quality of the first issue, although the content was by unknown amateurs and it was distributed free. It was attractively printed on glossy paper, in a square Digest format. All the money was spent on the first ...
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 ...