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Nickels, Thom
(? - ) US author of Walking Water/After All This (coll 1989), whose two tales are designed to test Gender issues in two radically different venus: the first is a Posthumous Fantasy [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]; the second, set on Earth after a mysterious Disaster has depopulated the world, confronts ...
Lost Continent
Film (1951). Sigmund Neufeld Productions. Distributed by Lippert Pictures. Directed by Sam Newfield. Written by Richard H Landau, and (uncredited) Orville H Hampton, from a story by Carroll Young. Cast includes Acquanetta, Whit Bissell, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler, John Hoyt and Cesar Romero. 83 minutes. Black and white with tinted green sequences. / Major Joe Nolan (Romero) leads a team of Scientists including Dr Stanley Briggs (Bissell) on a ...
Rogue Galaxy
Videogame (2005). Level 5. Designed by Akihiro Hino, Koji Hori, Takeshi Akasaka. Platforms: PS2 (2005); rev vt Rogue Galaxy: Director's Cut PS2 (2007). / Rogue Galaxy is a Console Role Playing Game (see Computer Role Playing Games), much influenced by Star Wars, but with the tone of a Young Adult ...
Lynch, Chris
(1962- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Bearing Paul" in Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow and Substance (anth 1996) edited by Lois Duncan; his Young Adult Cyberia sequence beginning with Cyberia (2008) is set in a Near Future "wired" world; the young protagonist, after discovering that his friends – animals with implanted microchips that ...
Doppelganger
Film (1969; vt Journey to the Far Side of the Sun). Century 21 Productions/Universal. Producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Directed by Robert Parrish. Written by the Andersons, Donald James. Cast includes Ian Hendry, Herbert Lom, Lyn Loring, Roy Thinnes and Patrick Wymark. 101 minutes, cut to 94 minutes (US). Colour. / The first live-action feature from the Anderson production team responsible for a number of ...
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 ...