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Payne, A R Middletoun
(? -? ) US author of a Lost Race novel, The Geral-Milco; Or, the Narrative of a Residence in a Brazilian Valley of the Sierra-Paricis (1852; vt Rambles in Brazil; Or, A Peep at the Aztecs, by One Who Has Seen Them 1854), told as a travelogue whose narrator discovers, in the Matto Grosso of Brazil, a mixed civilization of Aztecs (who had fled south after the Spanish destruction of their empire) and ...
Pruyn, Leonard
(1898-1973) US author, in active service during World War One, whose two short sf stories appeared a year apart: "In Time of Sorrow" in Authentic Science Fiction for February 1954 and "A La Carte" in Spaceway for February 1955. His brief sf career continued and concluded with an sf novel, World without Women (1960) with Day Keene, about the ...
Kinvig
UK tv series (1981). London Weekend Television. Created and written by Nigel Kneale. Produced and directed by Les Chatfield. Cast includes Prunella Gee, Tony Haygarth, Colin Jeavons and Patsy Rowlands. Seven 25-minute episodes. Colour. / This most recent of Kneale's many sf plays and series for television was a sitcom, fuelled apparently by a certain animus against sf Fandom, about two lunatic fans living seedy urban lives, ...
O'Neil, Dennis
(1939-2020) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Iconoclasts" for Fantastic in April 1971, and who has since published some short fiction; his first novel, The Bite of Monsters (1971), an sf tale involving an Alien occupation of Earth, which is successfully resisted. O'Neil's main focus for most of his career comprised tales and Graphic Novels ...
Aliens [film]
Film (1986). Brandywine/Twentieth Century Fox. Produced by Gale Anne Hurd, directed by James Cameron. Written by Cameron, based on a story by Cameron, David Giler, Walter Hill. Cast includes Michael Biehn, Jenette Goldstein, Carrie Henn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, Paul Reiser and Sigourney Weaver. 137 minutes. Colour. / This formidable sequel to Alien is more an action than a ...
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 ...