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Hargreaves, H A
(1928-2017) US-born author, in Canada most of his life, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Tee Vee Man" in New Worlds for December 1963. He is mostly of sf interest for North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (coll 1973; exp vt North by 2000+2012) assembles Near-Future stores, some of them Satirical, all set in "Americanada", a name which reflects ...
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
1. Film (1951). Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Robert Wise. Written by Edmund H North, based on "Farewell to the Master" (October 1940 Astounding) by Harry Bates. Cast includes Sam Jaffe, Hugh Marlowe, Patricia Neal and Michael Rennie. 92 minutes. Black and white. / Produced at the beginning of the sf boom of the 1950s, this is generally regarded as a classic, though its ethics might ...
Gaillard, Stephen
Pseudonym of A L Peticolas (1872-1948), US telephone worker – with Chicago Bell circa 1915 – editor and author. His only publication seems to be The Pirates of the Sky: A Tale of Modern Adventure (1915), a competent Young Adult tale in which an intrepid pilot and a resourceful newspaper reporter track down and are instrumental in defeating an anarchist conspiracy whose plans hint at the ...
Mills, Dorothy
(1889-1959) UK author of several travel books which record her adventurous life in Africa and South America, and of three books of sf interest: The Arms of the Sun (1924), a Lost World tale set in Africa, where a white woman (as was still usual in this category of fiction as late as 1924) is shown being worshipped by Blacks; The Dark Gods (1925), also set in an indefinably mysterious Africa; and Phoenix (1926), in which ...
X-Men '97
US animated series (2024-current). Marvel Animation. Based on the X-Men created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for Marvel Comics; this series created by Beau DeMayo. Directed by Jake Castorena, Chase Conley and Emi Yonemura. Writers include Beau DeMayo, Charley Feldman and Anthony Sellitti. Voice cast includes Eric Bauza, George Buza, Chris Britton, Ray Chase, Todd ...
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 ...