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Hawkins, Peter
(1926- ) UK bank clerk whose first sf sale was "Life Cycle" in New Worlds for Spring 1951; his 14 stories under his own name all appeared in that magazine and in Science Fantasy over the following decade. He published a routine sf adventure, The Plant from Infinity (1954) as by Karl Maras, a House Name. [JC]
Fantastic
US Digest-size magazine, companion to Amazing Stories; published by Ziff-Davis (Summer 1952-June 1965), Ultimate Publishing Co. (September 1965-October 1980); edited by Howard Browne (Summer 1952-August 1956), Paul W Fairman (October 1956-November 1958), Cele Goldsmith (December 1958-June 1965; as Cele G ...
Save the Green Planet!
South Korean film (2003); original title Jigureul jikyeora!. CJ Entertainment/Sidus. Written and directed by Jang Joon-hwan. Cast includes Baek Yoon-sik, Hwang Jeon-min, Lee Jae-yong, Lee Ju-hyeon and Shin Ha-kyun. 118 minutes. Colour. / Byeong-gu (Shin) is convinced that pharmaceutical executive Kang Man-shik (Baek) is actually an Alien from Andromeda, in advance of a planned Invasion of ...
Cleve, John
Pseudonym used mainly by Andrew J Offutt for several erotic sf novels and for the first six volumes of the 19-volume Spaceways sequence; most of the rest were jointly authored. Offutt's collaborators included G C Edmondson, Roland Green, Jack C Haldeman, Robin Kincaid, Victor Koman, Geo W ...
Newton, W Douglas
Working name of Irish author Wilfrid Bernard Michael Newton (1884-1951), active from around 1907 in British magazines, where he published a wide variety of fiction including the occult, the supernatural, thrillers and sf; he also wrote as by Bernard Birmingham, W N Douglas, John Halstead, John How and Ian Irons. His first sf novels are set in the Near Future, and speculate upon the possibility of Invasion and ...
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 ...