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Clones, The
Film (1973; vt Dead Man Running). Filmmakers International/New World Pictures. Produced by Paul Hunt. Directed by Lamar Card and Hunt. Written by Steve Fisher from an original story by Card and Hunt. Cast includes Stanley Adams, Michael Greene, Susan Hunt and Gregory Sierra. 95 minutes. Colour. / Nuclear physicist Dr Gerald Appleby (Greene) discovers to his horror that an exact duplicate of himself has been attending his workplace and seeing his girlfriend Penny (Hunt). He has ...
France, Anatole
Working name of Jacques Anatole-François Thibault (1844-1924), French author active from the early 1860s until his death; he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. His essayistic "pagan" Satires seem perhaps less relevant now than formerly, their amused rationality failing to bite with sufficient savagery into targets like official religion and sexual prudery. Of sf interest are Sur la pierre blanche (1904 ...
Hubble, Nick
(1965- ) UK academic and author whose earlier work did not focus on Fantastika narrowly conceived, though Mass Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory (2005) and The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (2017) [neither listed below] very usefully explore the 1930s world. The Science Fiction Handbook (anth 2013) with Aris Mousoutzanis, a conspectus on the field, maintains a ...
Yauza
Russian publishing house, initially established in Moscow in 1993 to publish children's literature and works for Young Adults. Since 2006, it has been affiliated with the Eksmo mega-publisher, drifting steadily into an output increasingly favouring War novels and Military SF. / On several occasions, Yauza has been the instigator of controversial publishing lines of ...
Bellotto, Sam, Jr
(1946-2023) US editor, author, journalist and crossword compiler who is remembered for the Amateur Magazine (foreshadowing Semiprozines) Perihelion, which launched in April 1967 as Seldon Seen edited with Eric M Jones for the science-fiction club at Long Island University in Brooklyn; from the third issue it was retitled Perihelion with continued numbering and Bellotto as sole editor; this first run ended ...
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 ...