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Halford, John
(? -? ) UK author whose Hidden Saria (1934) is a Lost Race tale featuring an advanced civilization, hidden in a valley in Asia and descended from ancient Greek wanderers. [JC]
Moore, Isabel
(? - ) US author whose Near Future tale, The Day the Communists Took Over America (1961), depicts in Cold War terms what comes close to a full outbreak of World War Three: the Soviets have blockaded America, sink her shipping, block her from Communications with other nations, and introduce a deadly ...
Underwater City, The
Film (1962). Neptune Productions/Columbia Pictures. Directed by Frank McDonald. Produced by Alex Gordon. Written by Gordon, Ruth Alexander and Orville Hampton (credited as Owen Harris). Cast includes Julie Adams, George DeNormand (uncredited), Chet Douglas, William Lundigan, Karen Norris and Cecil Benton Reid. Narrator: Vince Williams (uncredited). 78 minutes. Black and white in theatre prints; colour in television prints. / Dr Junius Halstead (Reid) has a dream of colonizing the ...
Frazee, Steve
(1909-1992) US scriptwriter and author, usually of Westerns, whose sf novel, The Sky Block (1953), is a Near Future thriller set in the Rocky Mountains. [JC]
Stilson, Charles B
(1880-1932) US journalist and editor, active in the early decades of the century with serialized novels and some stories for the Frank A Munsey magazines. His Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired sf/fantasy trilogy (see also Tarzan) – Polaris of the Snows (18 December 1915-1 January 1916 All-Story as Polaris – of the Snows; 1965), ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...