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Dengelegi, Paul
(1963- ) US author of two Ties to Barry Sadler's Casca series about an undying mercenary on eternal call: Barry Sadler's Casca: The Liberator (1999) and Barry Sadler's Casca: The Defiant (2001). [JC]
James, Dolan
(? - ) US author of a mildly pornographic sf novel, Space Swappers (1970; vt Solar System Swingers 1992 as by Dodie St James), in which two male "swingers", frustrated by exiguous Sex on Earth, go to Mars where green-skinned humanoid females are easy prey. No hard data has surfaced about the latter title. [JC]
Curse of the Aztec Mummy, The
Mexican film (1957); original title La Maldición de la Momia Azteca. Cinematográfica Calderón S.A. Directed by Rafel Portillo. Written by Guillermo Calderon and Alfredo Salazar. Cast includes Crox Alvarado, Rosita Arenas, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Ángel Di Stefani and Ramón Gay. 64 minutes. Black and white. / Following on from the events of The Aztec Mummy ...
Jaffery, Sheldon
(1934-2003) US attorney, editor and bibliographer. In the latter capacity he concentrated on fantasy and horror, beginning with Horrors and Unpleasantries: A Bibliographical History and Collector's Price Guide to Arkham House (1982; rev vt The Arkham House Companion) [for full subtitle see Checklist] (1989) a bibliography of Arkham House productions. His guides to Weird Tales – ...
Hurley, Graham
(1946- ) UK television scriptwriter and producer and author whose first novel, Rules of Engagement (1990; rev 1991), is based on his own 1989 Near Future Television drama, Rules of Engagement (1989 6 episodes), set in the sealed-off English city of Portsmouth just on the eve of World War Three. His later books, mainly the ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...