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Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster
Film (1965; vt Mars Invades Puerto Rico; vt Duel of the Space Monsters). Vernon-Seleca Films. Directed by Robert Gaffney. Written by R H W Dillard, George Garrett and John Rodenbeck. Cast includes Lou Cutell, Marilyn Hanold, James Karen, Nancy Marshall and Robert Reilley. 79 minutes. Black and white. / After a ruinous atomic war on Mars, a few survivors led by Princess Marcuzan (Hanold) and her assistant Dr ...
Courtier, S H
Working name of Sidney Hobson Courtier (1904-1974), Australian school-teacher and author who principally wrote crime fiction, often with Australian bush settings and Aboriginal characters. His two sf thrillers for Robert Hale Limited are Into the Silence (1973), in which silence engulfs the Earth and the loss of spoken-word Communication brings chaos; and The Smiling Trip (1975), where a ...
Bethke, Bruce
(1955- ) US author best known for his short stories, in particular his first professional publication, "Cyberpunk" in Amazing for November 1983, which appeared there after circulating in manuscript and almost certainly inspiring Gardner Dozois's use of the term Cyberpunk to designate the new movement, in an exclamatory fashion ironically distinct from Bethke's own jaundiced view ...
Milán, Victor
(1954-2018) US author who has written under his own name and, it is understood, under further names; his acknowledged pseudonyms include Richard Austin, Robert Baron and S L Hunter; House Names include Alex Archer and James Axler. He began publishing sf with "Soldatenmangel" for Dragons of Darkness (anth 1981) edited by Orson Scott Card, and began ...
Cinemagic
Letter-size saddle-stapled special effects Cinema magazine. Originally a Fanzine issued by Don Dohler (1946-2006) for 11 photocopied issues from 1972 to 1979. Relaunched in 1979 by O'Quinn Publications. Edited by Dohler and others. 36 issues from 1979 to 1987; the publication schedule was roughly quarterly. / This was the first US magazine to offer instructions on how to create special effects for amateur films. It began as a ...
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 ...