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Spencer, G F
(? - ) UK author whose sf novel is Heavens for All (1944). [JC/DRL]
Stepford Wives, The
Film (1974). Fadsin Cinema Associates/Columbia. Directed by Bryan Forbes. Written by William Goldman, based on The Stepford Wives (1972) by Ira Levin. Cast includes Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Patrick O'Neal, Paula Prentiss and Katharine Ross. 115 minutes. Colour. / In this black but rather crude Satire on the role of women in US society, the men of Stepford, a sleepy, attractive Connecticut town, take part ...
Forstchen, William R
(1950- ) US history professor author who has generally concentrated on series, beginning with the Ice Prophet sequence – Ice Prophet (1983), The Flame upon the Ice (1984) and A Darkness upon the Ice (1985) – set in a Ruined Earth venue at some point in the future after an ecological Disaster has caused the planet to become icebound. In this world ...
Klaabu kosmoses
Estonian/Russian animated film (1981; vt Klaabu in Space). Tallinnfilm. Directed by Avo Paistik. Written by Avo Paistik and Enn Vetemaa. 15 minutes. Colour. / Klaabu kosmoses is the third part of a trilogy of dialogue-free shorts by Paistik. The first is Klaabu (1978; 10 minutes), where an egg is formed from a drop of water and is brooded by a passing bird: it hatches into Klaabu, a four-limbed egg with a face (and, judging from ...
Stanley, Dorothy
(1855-1926) UK painter who worked as Dorothy Tennant and author, married to the explorer Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904). In her World War One novel, Miss Pym's Camouflage (1918), an essentially fantasy device – Invisibility at will, without any explanation – is applied with considerable wit as Miss Perdita Pym demonstrates her powers to the War Office (see ...
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 ...