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Hadley, Arthur T
(1924-2015) US journalist and author, not to be confused with his grandfather, the nonfiction writer and academic Arthur Twining Hadley (1856-1930); in his sf Satire, The Joy Wagon (1958), a Robot with a Computer brain known as Minivac runs for President in a sharply comic send-up of the US electoral system, and almost wins. [JC] see also: Politics. /
Johns, Marston
A House Name of the New York publisher Arcadia House, used for a few reissues of titles by R L Fanthorpe and John S Glasby formerly published by John Spencer and Co's Badger Books imprint under the Spencer house name John E Muller. The byline Mel Jay was similarly used for Arcadia House's 1966 reissue of Orbit One ...
Phillips, Donald G
(? - ) US author of a Tie for the Battletech Wargame universe, Battletech: Star Lord (1996). [JC]
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Film (1983). Dino De Laurentiis. Produced by Debra Hill, John Carpenter. Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. Written by Wallace (but primarily by Nigel Kneale, uncredited). Cast includes Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin and Dan O'Herlihy. 98 minutes. Colour. / Not at all a true sequel to the "stalk and slash" Halloween films, this is a horror film with an sf rationale. Crazed Irish entrepreneur Cochran (O'Herlihy), ...
Logic
Recording name of US rapper and streamer Robert Bryson Hall II (1990- ), whose The Incredible True Story (2015) is an sf concept album, unusual in mainstream rather than underground hip-hop. The framing story has a Spaceship heading to the planet Paradise, escaping Earth after failed attempts to create a super-nation to combat Climate Change led to Wars involving the ...
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 ...