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Weaver, Richard
(1936- ) UK artist and graphic designer who studied at the Royal College of Arts in the 1950s, worked for various design agencies, and set up his own Richard Weaver (Designs) Ltd in 1975. He created numerous covers for sf books issued by the British publisher Dennis Dobson from 1965 to 1980, and apparently did no other sf genre work, though he is also credited for a small number of Penguin crime paperbacks including some by Michael Innes. ...
Roberts, Keith
(1935-2000) UK author and illustrator long resident in the south of England, where most of his best fiction was set. After working as an illustrator and cartoon animator, he began publishing sf with "Anita" and "Escapism" in the same issue of Science Fantasy, September/October 1964; several of his early stories were written as by Alistair Bevan. He served as associate editor of Science Fantasy 1965-1966 ...
Gorey, Edward
(1925-2000) US author and artist who produced many book jackets and internal illustrations, often for children's books. As an artist he was essentially self-taught despite a single semester of study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943; his acknowledged influences included Chinese, Japanese and Symbolist art. Though his many covers for Doubleday Anchor books in the 1950s were important in establishing the "quality paperback" as a prestige marketing category, he is best known ...
Partridge of Sintaluta
Pseudonym of Canadian teacher and author Edward Alexander Partridge (1862-1931), active from as early as 1883 in Sintaluta, Manitoba, where he co-founded the idealistic Territorial Grain Growers' Association in 1901; the full range of his views are more freely expressed in A War on Poverty: The One War That Can End War (1925), in which a socialist Utopia is established as the independent state of Coalsamao, legally separate from the rest of Canada. ...
WarGames
Film (1983). Sherwood Productions/MGM/UA. Directed by John Badham. Written by Lawrence Lasker, Walter F Parkes. Cast includes Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Barry Corbin, Ally Sheedy and John Wood. 113 minutes. Colour. / Senior defense officials in Colorado are seen deciding to transfer responsibility for responding to a Soviet attack from fallible humans to a Computer installation. Meanwhile in Seattle, teenager ...
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 ...