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Antczak, Stephen L
(1966- ) US author, former punk rock singer and Comics creator who attended the University of Florida in Gainsville and began to publish work of genre interest with "Shit Happens" in the Fanzine The Scanner #5 (1989) as Steve Antczak. His first novel God Drug (2004) has a back-story in which the US Marines test the titular Drug, a weapons-grade form of LSD, in hope of ...
Wolfe, Gary K
(1946- ) US academic and author, associated with Roosevelt University in Chicago since 1971; as Dean of University College between 1981 and 1990; married to Dede Weil from 1997 until her death in 2000. Some of his earlier essays, like "The Known and the Unknown: Structure and Image in Science Fiction" (in Many Futures, Many Worlds, anth 1977, ed Thomas B Clareson), prefigured the ...
Chillers
US letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine. Publisher: Charlton Comics. Editor: Roger Elwood. Three bimonthly issues, July to November 1981. / A final attempt by Charlton at a Monster Movies magazine, this title covered such films of the period as Clash of the Titans (1981), Escape from New York ...
Brain from Planet Arous, The
Film (1957). Marquette Productions Ltd/Howco International. Produced by Jacques R Marquette. Directed by Nathan H Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz). Written by Ray Buffum. Cast includes John Agar, Joyce Meadows and Dale Tate. 71 minutes. Black and white. / Young Scientist Steve March (Agar) is about to marry Sally (Meadows) when the criminal Alien brain Gor (voiced by Tate) arrives on Earth, and takes possession of Steve's ...
Time Traveller, The
A very early US Fanzine or Amateur Magazine with nine issues, published in 1932-1933, initially monthly with #1 dated January and #9 dated Winter 1933. Edited by Allen Glasser; managing editor Julius Schwartz; associate editor Mort Weisinger. Forrest J Ackerman was billed as contributing ...
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 ...