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Pujol, René
(1887-1942) French journalist, screenwriter, director and author, a prolific author of adventure tales, some of these engaging in planet-smasher pyrotechnics, like La Planète Invisible ["The Invisible Planet"] (1931), in which a visiting planet threatens Disaster to the Solar System or Au Temps des Brumes ["The Time of the Mist"] (1932), where Earth is choked in a light-devouring cloud. The two ...
Walt Disney Company, The
Popularly referred to as Disney, this media conglomerate has been known by the above name since 1986. Its first iteration was the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (1923-1926), named after its founders Walt Disney (1901-1966) and Roy O Disney (1893-1971); then The Walt Disney Studio (1926-1929); followed by Walt Disney Productions (1929-1986). Roy Disney's input to the various Disney companies involved business rather than creative matters; he was CEO until 1971 and President (the post previously ...
Stine, Alison
(1978- ) US poet and author, active from the turn of the century; of her poetry, Ohio Violence (coll of linked poems 2009 chap) contains fantastic elements. Her first novel, Supervision (2015), is a Young Adult fantasy set in semi-rural Appalachian Ohio, whose protagonist, finding herself sent by her family into exile there, discovers that she has become invisible (see ...
Taylor, W T
(? -? ) UK author of fiction for boys, who also wrote as by John Bredon and Dave Gregory. Lord of the Incas (7 July-6 October 1934 Ranger; 1935) as by Dave Gregory is a Lost Race tale set in South America; in the Near Future The Great Disaster: A Story of 2000 A.D. (1935 chap) as by John Bredon, Britain suffers under a dictatorship and a ...
Erickson, Paul
(1920-1991) Welsh scriptwriter, active from the 1950s, and author of a Doctor Who Tie, Doctor Who: The Ark (1986), based on his own script – also co-credited on broadcast to his then wife, Lesley Scott – for the 1966 television version of the tale, which involves complex relationships among various Alien races on a vast spaceship. [JC]
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 ...