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Creepypasta
Catch-all term that began as a descriptor of anonymous Urban Legends copied and reposted on the Internet and has grown to encompass a online folk Horror tradition with millions of adherents. Creepypastas are the campfire stories of the digital realm, reflecting the fears and anxieties of the first generation to have grown up as natives of that world. / Although creepypasta is a flexible term, traditionally they are short, ...
Noble, Vernon
(1908-1987) UK journalist, broadcaster and author whose Children's SF novel, Cloud Island: A Mystery of the Sky (1949), features a cloud so firm it can be walked upon. The eponymous Mad Scientist in The Case of the Missing Professor (1952) seems to have discovered the secret of Rejuvenation. [JC]
Yesterday Machine, The
Film (1963). Carter Film Productions. Directed, produced and written by Russ Marker. Cast includes James Britton, Carol Gilley, Jack Herman, Tim Holt, Linda Jenkins, Robert Bob Kelly, Ann Pellegrino, Olga Powell, Jay Ramsey, Bill Thurman and Charles Young. 85 minutes. Black and white. / Ex-Nazi Scientist Professor Ernst Von Hauser (Herman), based with his henchmen near a small town in Texas, has perfected Time Travel and ...
Cooper, Brenda
(1960- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ice and Mirrors" in Asimov's for February 2001 with Larry Niven, with whom she collaborated on several subsequent works, including the novel Building Harlequin's Moon (2005), which follows the course of the first interstellar Starship, whose crew is fleeing an Earth dominated by ...
Bradwell, James
Pseudonym of US author Arthur William Charles Kent (1925-1998), which he used for two ties to the Television series Land of the Giants (1968-1970), about a group of humans cast by time-warp (see Timeslip) into a world whose inhabitants, of all sorts, are 12 times their size on Earth. His contributions were Land of the Giants: The Mean City (1969) and ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...