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Rouzade, Léonie
Pseudonym of French feminist, politician, journalist and author Louise-Léonie Camusat (1839-1916) of two sf tales, Voyage de Théodose à l'île d'Utopie ["A Voyage to the Isle of Utopia"] (1872) and Le monde renversé ["The World Turned Upside Down"] (1872), translated together by Brian Stableford as The World Turned Upside Down (omni 2015). The first is a ...
Crawford, William L
(1911-1984) US publisher and editor, one of the first sf fans to become a publisher, editing and producing two Semiprozines: Unusual Stories – ambitiously announced in 1933 but more or less still-born – and Marvel Tales, which came out in 1934. At about the same time, after a chapbook anthology assembling "Men of Avalon" by David H Keller and ...
Walsh, M C
(? -? ) US author of a Lost Race novel, The Golden Idol: A Tale of Adventure in Australia and New Zealand (1891), in which explorers discover and attempt to exploit an Underground treasure guarded by the last survivors of an extinct race, though the line may be preserved through the departure of the tale's protagonist with a woman he has fallen in love with. [JC]
Chaikovsky, Mykola
(1887-1970) Ukrainian teacher, mathematician and author of Fantastika who in 1918 he wrote one of the first works of Ukrainian sf, Za syly sontsia ["By the Power of the Sun"] (written 1918; 1925). Its hero is Mykhailo Rozdvyanskyi, a brilliant engineer-physicist (see Scientists), inventor (see Invention) and aeronaut (professor of Kyiv Engineering Academy and ...
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Film (2011). Twentieth Century Fox/Chernin Entertainment/Dune Entertainment. Directed by Rupert Wyatt. Written by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, suggested by La Planète des singes (1963; trans as Planet of the Apes 1963 US) by Pierre Boulle. Cast includes Brian Cox, Tom Felton, James Franco, John Lithgow, Freida Pinto and Andy Serkis. 105 minutes. Colour. / A geneticist testing an Alzheimer's cure on chimpanzees ...
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 ...