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Levy, David
(1913-2000) US film executive and author in whose The Gods of Foxcroft (1970) the protagonist awakes from Suspended Animation to find the world of 500 years hence suffering under circumstances disastrous to the world's Ecology, forcing humans into cramped habitats; meanwhile, Aliens are observing us from space. [JC]
Foster, M A
(1939-2020) US author, former data-systems analyst and sequentially a Russian linguist and ICBM launch-crew commander to the US Air Force; he was also a semiprofessional photographer. After some poetry, released privately as Shards from Byzantium (coll 1969 chap) and The Vaseline Dreams of Hundifer Jones (coll 1970 chap), he began to publish sf with the ambitious Ler trilogy about a race of Supermen created by ...
Bubble Trouble
Short US film (1953). Columbia Pictures. Directed by Jules White. Written by Felix Adler (story) and Jack White (screenplay). Cast includes Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Florence Lake (uncredited), Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, and Victor Travis (uncredited). 17 minutes. Black and white. / This is a remake of All Gummed Up (1947), using much of the same footage but adding a new conclusion. Again, the Three Stooges (at the time, Fine, ...
Spangler, Catherine
(? - ) US author who is of primary sf interest for her romantic Space Opera series, the Shielder sequence beginning with Shielder (1999), where an initial Planetary Romance setting – the planet Liron, afflicted by an induced Pandemic – soon expands galaxywards as the Shielder culture attempts to find a cure. The series ...
Preiss, Byron
(1953-2005) US book packager, anthologist and co-author of two sf/fantasy novels – Guts (1979) with C J Henderson and Dragonworld (1979) with J Michael Reaves – and The Bat Family (1984 chap; vt The Vampire State Building 1992), a juvenile. Though he has also edited and co-edited numerous Anthologies, Preiss is best known as the most successful of the ...
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 ...