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Bryan, R M
(? - ) US author of the Near Future Post-Holocaust Young Adult Arden House sequence, beginning with Arden House: Book 1: Flight (2013), during the course of which two young protagonists find an isolated Quaker enclave, which they turn into a well-defended Keep, gaining some chance of survival in a balkanized ...
Nowhere Man
US tv series (1995-1996). Lawrence Hertzog Productions/Touchstone Television for UPN TV network. Created by Lawrence Hertzog. Produced by Peter Dunne. Directors included Michael Levine, Tobe Hooper, Steve Safford and Ian Toynton. Writers included Erica Byrne, Dunne, David Ehrman and Joel Surnow. Cast includes Megan Gallagher, Bruce Greenwood, Jay Arlen Jones and Murray Rubinstein. One 65-minute pilot plus 24 45-minute episodes. Colour. / Photojournalist Thomas Veil (Greenwood) ...
Lawson, Mark
(1962- ) UK broadcaster, journalist and author, active in UK literary circles from 1984, whose Alternate History tale, Idlewild, or Everything Is Subject to Change (1995), focuses on the Icon figures John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, both alive in 1993 and attempting a reunion as assassins hover. [JC]
Speller, Jane
(? -? ) US author, in collaboration with her husband Robert Speller, of Adam's First Wife (1929), which recounts the experiences over 7,000 years of Lilith, originally of Sumerian birth and therefore descended from survivors of Atlantis; her Immortality is Drug-induced, but does not require the blood of virgins, and she is perhaps too level-headed to stand as ...
Lost
US tv series (2004-2010). Bad Robot for ABC. Created by J J Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. Producers include Abrams, Lindelof, Cuse and Bryan Burk. Directors include Abrams, Jack Bender, Stephen Williams and Paul A Edwards. Writers include Abrams, Lindelof, Cuse, Jeffrey Lieber, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Drew Goddard, Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Brian K Vaughan. Cast includes Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard, Evangeline ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...