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Pagel, Stephen
(1956- ) US editor, publisher and reviewer who has also written as Steve Pagel; worked at Barnes and Noble for ten years to 1995, for the last three as chief US genre buyer; was sales director at White Wolf for three years from 1995; and launched Meisha Merlin Publishing with Kevin Murphy in 1997. He co-edited the three Bending the Landscape genre Anthology series with Nicola Griffith, beginning ...
Iron Man 2
Film (2010). Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present a Marvel Studios production in association with Fairview Entertainment. Directed by Jon Favreau. Written by Justin Theroux, based on the Marvel Comics series created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby, and Don Heck. Cast includes Don Cheadle, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow, ...
Currie, Edwina
(1946- ) UK politician, broadcaster and author, a Conservative member of Parliament 1983-1997, serving as Junior Health Minister 1986-1988. Most of her fiction, including A Parliamentary Affair (1994), is nonfantastic, with the exception of The Ambassador (1999), a not-so-Near Future tale set in 2099 in which the European Community has vastly increased its size and sway, while the USA is dominated by a ...
TV Greats: Space Stars of Movies and TV
US letter-size Cinema/Television magazine printed on newsprint paper. Publisher: Sterling's Magazines Inc. No editor named. Four issues from 1978 to 1980. / This magazine's parent publication TV Greats, launched in October 1977, was devoted to general film and television. Recognizing that Fantasy and sf had again become seriously profitable, Sterling cashed in with four erratically published ...
Life After People
US tv series (2009-2010). Flight 33 Productions for The History Channel. Created by David de Vries. One two-hour pilot film plus 20 45-minute episodes. Colour. / This unusual Thought Experiment series speculated on what might happen to various places and landmarks of the world if humanity should suddenly vanish for unspecified reasons. The timeline for each episode typically started at one day after the event, then one week, one month, one year, ...
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 ...