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Daughter of Dr Jekyll, The
Film (1957). Film Ventures/Allied Artists. Produced by Aubrey Wiseberg and Jack Pollexfen. Directed by Edgar G Ulmer. Written by Pollexfen, loosely based on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson. Cast includes John Agar, Arthur Shields, Gloria Talbot and Ken Terrel. 70 minutes. Black and white. / On her twenty-first birthday, Janet Smith (Talbot) arrives at her late father's estate in Ireland ...
Captain Future
US Pulp magazine, 17 issues Winter 1940 to Spring 1944, quarterly (missing Fall 1943). Published by Better Publications; edited by Leo Margulies with Mort Weisinger (1940-1941) and Oscar J Friend (1941-1944). A companion magazine to Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories, Captain Future ...
Leslie, Desmond
(1921-2001) UK composer and author, son of the writer Shane Leslie (1885-1971) and best known for co-authoring with George Adamski (whom see for details and related works by Adamski alone) the famous early UFO book Flying Saucers Have Landed (1954; exp by Leslie 1970). Of more direct sf interest is Angels Weep (1948), a right-wing Dystopia, and ...
Payne, Rob
(1973- ) Canadian-born author, now in Australia, of the How to Save the World sequence, so far comprising How to Be a Hero on Earth 5 (2006), a Young Adult sf tale involving Parallel Worlds, and its sequel How to Save the World Again (2007). [JC]
Dunan, Renée
(1892-1936) French journalist and author, whose birth data seem secure but whose death date has been challenged, though without much evidence to counter the printed record. Baal, ou La Magicienne passionée, live des ensorcellements ["Baal; Or, the Passionate Sorceress"] (1924) and Les Amants du diable ["The Lovers of the Devil"] (1929) – translated together by Brian Stableford as Baal; The Devil's Lovers ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...