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Kadrey, Richard
(1957- ) US rock musician, illustrator and author; he did the cover for Interzone #9 (Autumn 1984) and the vigorous though somewhat derivative collage illustrations for Dream Protocols (coll 1992 chap) by sf poet Lee Ballentine (1954- ); he has also contributed articles to Science Fiction Eye and Whole Earth Review. He began to publish work of genre interest ...
Dinosaurus!
Film (1960). Fairview Productions. Produced by Jack H Harris. Directed by Irvin S Yeaworth. Dinosaur animation by Tim Baar, Wah Chang. Dinosaur models designed by Marcel Delgado. Written by Dan E Weisbud, Jean Yeaworth from an original idea by Harris. Cast includes Kristina Hanson, Paul Lukather (Chuck), Gregg Martell, Ward Ramsey and Alan Roberts. 85 minutes. Colour. / Bart Thompson (Ramsey) is in charge of a construction crew working on an unnamed Caribbean ...
Fullerton, Alexander
(1924-2008) UK author, best known for the Nicholas Everard series of naval adventures set in World War One and World War Two; of his numerous singletons, Regenesis (1983) is a Near Future tale, set at sea. [JC]
Strange Suspense Stories
US Comic (1954-1965). 58 issues. Charlton Comics. Artists include Jon D'Agostino, Steve Ditko, Dick Giordano, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Bill Molno. Script writers include Joe Gill and Carl Memling. 36 pages (except #37, a double issue). Usually 4-5 long strips per issue, plus 1-2 short strips (occasionally non-fiction) and a short text story. #75-#77 are dominated ...
Nektar
UK progressive rock band, founded in Hamburg in 1969 and based thereafter in Germany. Their first album, Journey to the Centre of the Eye (1971) spins an only obliquely Verne-like premise in which an astronaut travels to another dimension from which he is able to witness the nuclear destruction of Earth. A Tab in the Ocean (1972) is an incoherently druggy suite of songs, this time premised on the idea of dropping an enormous "tab" of ...
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 ...