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Morgan, Lara
Pseudonym of Australian author Lara Brncic (1971- ), whose first series, the Twins of Saranthium sequence beginning with Awakening (2008), is fantasy [not listed below]. She is of sf interest for The Rosie Black Chronicles beginning with The Rosie Black Chronicles: Genesis (2010), set in a Ruined Earth Western Australia about 500 years hence, after society has been divided into three mutually ...
Mission Mars
Film (1968). Red Ram Productions. Directed by Nicholas Webster. Written by Michael St Clair, based on a story by Aubrey Wisberg. Cast includes Nick Adams, Michael DeBeausset, George De Vries, Heather Hewitt, Bill Kelly and Darren McGavin. 95 minutes. Colour. / Two astronauts – Mike Blaiswick (McGavin) and Duncan (De Vries) – along with geologist Nick Grant (Adams) blast off on America's first flight to Mars, constantly in contact with NASA ...
Peel, John
(1954- ) UK television scriptwriter and author, resident for some time in the US, who has also written under the House Name Nicholas Adams, Rick North and John Vincent. He is mostly noted for his influential Doctor Who Ties, beginning with Doctor Who: The Chase (1989), often featuring ...
Richardson, David J
(? - ) US author of The Star Dwarves Travesty (1994; vt The Star Dwarves Trilogy 1997), a Parody of the first three volumes (by real world chronology) of George Lucas's Star Wars film sequence, focusing more on puns and intermittent attempts at narrative hoopla. Sf spoofs based on funny name changes – Luke Skywalker ...
Dimensions
We perceive three spatial dimensions, but theoretical Mathematics is easily capable of dealing with many more. Conventional graphical analysis frequently represents Time as a dimension, encouraging consideration of it as the "fourth dimension". The possible existence of Parallel Worlds displaced from ours along a fourth spatial dimension (in the same way that a series of two-dimensional universes might ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...