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Gaida, Davida
(? - ) US author of 2084 (1983), a Dystopia set in southern California, where Genetic Engineering has been used to prevent the birth of women; those few who survive are either whores or slaves. The contemporary microbiologist whose research led inadvertently to this world arrives by Time Travel in the midst of ...
Shock
US Digest-size magazine. Publisher: Winston Publications Inc. Editor was possibly Bart Anders. Three bimonthly issues: July, September and November 1960. / 1. This short-lived but high-quality weird fiction magazine – subtitled "The Magazine of Terrifying Tales" – consisted largely of reprints, mostly of strong stories by notable authors, many also active in sf. Selections include "The Emissary" (May 1943 ...
Alien: Covenant
Film (2017). 20th Century Fox presents a Brandywine Productions, TSG Entertainment and Scott Free Productions film. Directed by Ridley Scott. Written by Michael Green, Dante Harper, John Logan, Dan O'Bannon, Jack Paglen and Ronald Shusett. Cast includes Billy Crudup, Michael Fassbender, Danny McBride and Katherine Waterston. 122 minutes. Colour. / A Spaceship containing a skeleton crew, one thousand human embryos and ...
Jonathan, Norton Hughes
(1914-1990) US author, mostly of adventure tales for boys. The "ghost gang" in Dan Hyland, Police Reporter (1936) is rationalized; but the Lost Race City in The Lost Empire; Or, Larry Hannon Carries On (1934), part of the Eagle Scouts series, is duly discovered in Nepal and dealt with. [JC]
Peel, John
(1954- ) UK television scriptwriter and author, resident for some time in the US, who has also written under the House Name Nicholas Adams, Rick North and John Vincent. He is mostly noted for his influential Doctor Who Ties, beginning with Doctor Who: The Chase (1989), often featuring ...
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 ...