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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Forgotten, The
Film (2004). Revolution Studios presents a Jinks/Cohen Company production. A Joseph Ruben film. Directed by Joseph Ruben. Written by Gerald DiPego. Cast includes Julianne Moore, Linus Roache, Gary Sinise, Dominic West and Alfre Woodard. 91 minutes. Colour. / Given a dramatic weight that it does not deserve by the performance of Julianne Moore, one of the finer actors of her generation, The Forgotten promises an intriguing reality-bending drama but quickly dissolves into a poor ...
Pall Mall Budget, The
UK magazine, edited by C Lewis Hind and others. Weekly, 3 October 1868 to 27 December 1894; later incorporated into The New Budget. Pall Mall Budget, nominally a weekly digest of newspaper articles from the Pall Mall Gazette, had negligible sf content until C Lewis Hind, himself a minor fantasy author, persuaded H G Wells to write a series of short stories. These appeared in 1894 under the general heading "Single Sitting Stories" and were ...
Woodley, Richard
(1937- ) Author, presumably US, active from the 1970s through the 1990s, who has published some twenty novels in various genres – almost all Cinema or Television Ties. Sf examples listed below are chiefly based on the television series The Man from Atlantis (1977-1978). Film ties include novelizations of ...
Morris, Jim
(1940- ) US author whose The Sheriff of Purgatory (1979; rev vt Spurlock: Sheriff of Purgatory 1987) describes, with moments of sharpness, a Post-Holocaust conflict between the sheriff and the Mafia in the eponymous Arkansas county. The action soon moves to a devastated New York. Breeder: Dewey Ann (1988) is similarly set in a ...
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 ...