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Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord
Australian tv series (1997). Film Australia, Shanghai Film Studios and Telewizja Polska. Created by Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson. Producers included Noel Price, Ron Saunders, Andrzej Stempowski and Charley Zhuo. Directed by Noel Price. Written by Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson. Actors included Leonard Fung, Lauren Hewett, Ryan Kwanten, Heather Mitchell, Peter O'Brien, Lenore Smith, Anthony Brandon Wong and Me Yang. 26 24-minute episodes. Colour. / ...
Ashton, Francis Leslie
(1904-1994) UK analytical chemist, painter and author whose first sf novel, The Breaking of the Seals (1946), sets a psychic time-traveller into a prehistoric world (see Prehistoric SF) where primitive society ends in chaos with the breaking up of Bahste, Earth's then Moon; a deluge follows. Its thematic sequel, Alas, That Great City (1948), set in Atlantis, propounds a ...
Scream and Scream Again
Film (1969). Amicus, American International Pictures. Directed by Gordon Hessler. Written by Christopher Wicking, based on The Disorientated Man (1966; vt Scream and Scream Again 1967) by Peter Saxon. Cast includes Michael Gothard, Christopher Lee, Alfred Marks and Vincent Price. 94 minutes. Colour. / This blend of policier, cold-war political thriller, ...
Hardy, Kate A
(? - ) UK author whose Midday Sun trilogy beginning with Going out in the Midday Sun (2012) edges just past the present in its closing pages, with Climate Change threatening the cast. She is of greater sf interest for Hoxton (2016; vt Londonia 2020), set in a distant Near Future Dystopian ...
Aguilera, Juan Miguel
(1960- ) Spanish illustrator, industrial designer by profession, and author. He is considered one of the best Spanish sf writers. He has published thirteen novels, half of them in collaboration with other authors; three novellas in collaboration; and fifteen or so short stories. His works convey like few others the sf Sense of Wonder. / His first story was "Sangrando correctamente" ["Bleeding Correctly"] ...
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 ...