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Sims, Alan
(? - ) Author, presumably UK, of the novels Phoinix (1928) and Anna Perenna (1930). Phoinix reworks Greek Mythology, not only retelling the saga of Achilles in the Trojan War but bringing in Hercules, the Argonauts and the poet Homeros (see Homer), who here exaggerates Achilles' rage and violence for dramatic effect. Anna Perenna (1930) is a broad ...
Predator 2
Film (1990). Gordon/Silver/Davis/Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Stephen Hopkins. Written by Jim Thomas, John Thomas. Cast includes Maria Conchita Alonso, Ruben Blades, Gary Busey, Danny Glover, Kevin Peter Hall and Bill Paxton. 107 minutes. Colour. / This superior sequel to Predator is a well-oiled adrenaline machine. Los Angeles (see California) in 1997 is anarchic, with Jamaican and Colombian drug gangs, the LA police ...
Culbreath, Myrna
(1938- ) US author known almost exclusively for her collaborations with Sondra Marshak as a producer of Ties for Star Trek, beginning with Star Trek: The New Voyages (coll 1976) and its direct sequel Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (anth 1978); with Marshak she also wrote ...
Chevalier, Haakon
(1901-1985) US author and translator from the French of many works; his career as a US university professor was destroyed by the House Unamerican Affairs Committee after 1950, and he emigrated to France where he worked as a translator. His novel The Man Who Would Be God (1959) was meant as a self-defence against the 1953 accusation that he had committed treason with Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the "father of the atomic bomb". Almost inadvertently, the tale creates a portrait ...
Rozanès, Alain P
(? - ) Author, possibly French, of an sf novel, The Great Confederation of Argos (trans by Melanie Brown 1996), set in Near Future France when it is discovered that all women, including virgins and those past menopause, have simultaneously become pregnant; the affliction turns out to be worldwide. [JC]
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 ...