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Silver, Eve
(? - ) Canadian author who began to publish work of genre interest with Driven (2007) as by Eve Kenin, a Young Adult adventure/romance set in a future Dystopia with the flavour of an Arctic Mad Max (1979). This opens her Northern Waste sequence, which continues with Hidden (2008) and Frozen ...
Leivick, H
Working name of Russian composer, journalist and playwright Leivick Halpern (1888-1962), whose language (and identity) was Yiddish; after imprisonment and Siberian exile, he lived in the USA from 1913; his working name was adapted in America to avoid any confusion with the exiled poet Moyshe Leyb-Halpern (1886-1932), also in New York. Of sf interest is his verse drama, published originally in German translation as Der Goylem: A Dramatische Poeme in Akht Bilder (1921; trans J C ...
Leslie, Peter
(1922-2000) UK author, journalist and actor, most of whose books were borderline-sf Ties contributed to Television spin-off series, beginning with two titles tied to The Avengers (1961-1969): Deadline (1965) and Dead Duck (1966), both as by Patrick Macnee but probably entirely ghostwritten by Leslie. His tales for the ...
Demolition Man
Film (1993). Silver Pictures/Warner Bros. Directed by Marco Brambilla. Written by Daniel Waters, Robert Reneau, Peter M Lenkov, based on a story by Lenkov and Reneau. Cast includes Sandra Bullock, Bob Gunton, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Leary, Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone. 115 minutes. Colour. / In 1997 Los Angeles (see California), macho cop John Spartan (Stallone) – nicknamed "the demolition man" – is ...
Adair, James B
(1948-2018) US author of the WWIII: Behind the Lines series whose three titles are WWIII: Behind the Lines: Target Texas (1990), WWIII: Behind the Lines: Target Nuke (1990) and WWIII: Behind the Lines: Target Iran (1991), all with Gordon Rottman, who is the author of many nonfiction books on military subjects; and of the Deepcore Technothriller series comprising ...
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 ...