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Kasack, Hermann
(1896-1966) German author of Der Stadt hinter dem Strom (1949; trans Peter De Mendelssohn as The City Beyond the River 1953), a tale whose setting – initially World War Two, and then a distant City where the protagonist is assigned the Kafka-esque task of serving as its official chronicler – ...
Diskin, Lahna F
(? - ) US academic, author and critic, for many years a professor of English until she retired in 1999. She published two useful books on Theodore Sturgeon: the Bibliography Theodore Sturgeon: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980), and the Starmont House study Theodore Sturgeon (1981 chap) as Lahna Diskin. From 1982 to 1985 she also reviewed for ...
Hu-Man
French film (1975). Romantique Films, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, Institut national de l'audiovisuel, Filmologies. Directed by Jérôme Laperrousaz. Written by Jérôme Laperrousaz, André Roullan and Guillaume Laperrousaz, with the collaboration of Francis Guilbert. Cast includes Jeanne Moreau, Terence Stamp, Agnès Stevenin and Frederik von Pallandt. 105 minutes. Colour. / ...
Spies, Spoofs & Super Guys
Letter-size, saddle-stapled Cinema magazine. One issue only, dated 1966, from Dell Publishing. No editor named. / This was the nearest that Dell Publications ever came to issuing a "monster magazine" or sf media title, apparently intended from the outset as a one-off publication. Television articles dealt with the series The Avengers (1961-1969), Batman ...
Jerrold, Douglas
(1893-1964) UK publisher and author, in active service during World War One; his Near-Future Storm Over Europe (1930) expresses – through the history of Cisalpania, a Ruritania caught in the liberalizing trammels of twentieth-century thought and politics, until monarchy is restored – an anti-semitic, conservative Roman Catholic view of history which his contemporaries ...
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 ...