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Dreamwatch
UK oversized Media Magazine printed on a mix of middle-quality and slick paper. Published first by Dreamwatch Publishing, then Titan Magazines 1983 to 2007. Editors included Anthony Clark, Gary Leigh, Brian J Robb and Paul Simpson. 150 issues; publication schedule was generally monthly. / The magazine began in July 1983 as Doctor Who Bulletin, a Fanzine devoted to the Television programme ...
Styx
US rock band formed in Chicago in 1972, who achieved considerable success in the 1970s and early 1980s. Their sf concept album Kilroy Was Here (1983) introduced a more synth-led sound, and produced two hit singles in "Mr. Roboto" and "Don't Let It End"; but the songs are weak and overly theatrical. The story was a response to Christian anti-rock activists: The MMM (Majority for Musical Morality) has outlawed rock music, but the imprisoned singer Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (or ...
Clapham, Mark
(1976- ) UK author of fiction and nonfiction about Comics, Television and Videogames, whose first novel was a Tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Beige Planet Mars (1998) with Lance Parkin. This was followed by other Doctor Who-related works [see Checklist ...
Gwinn, D Howard
(1857-1938) US author of whom nothing is known beyond his sf novel, The Gold of Ophir (1898), whose protagonists find the entrance to an Underground Lost World, and are able to determine that the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel settled there, and were the progenitors of the later Aztecs. [JC]
Deltron 3030
US hip-hop supergroup comprising producer Dan the Automator (Daniel Nakamura, 9 September 1967- ), rapper Del the Funky Homosapien (Teren Delvon Jones, 12 August 1972- ) and turntablist Kid Koala (Eric San, 1974- ). They released their eponymous debut album in 2000. After a considerable hiatus, their second album, Event 2, appeared in 2013. / Deltron 3030 (2000) is an ...
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 ...