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Voyage to the Deep
US Comic (1962-1963). 4 issues. Dell Publishing Co. Inc. Artists include John McDermott and Sam Glanzman. Script writers include Paul Newman. Each issue contains a 32-page story about the US submarine Proteus, usually book-ended by two one-page non-fiction pieces, often related to the subject of the main story. For instance, in #1 these concern the biblical flood (see Religion), the text informing us that the "upper waters" ...
Sharp, Doug
(1952-? ) US teacher and author of Channel Zilch (2013), a humorous Near Future spoof about an astronaut, fired for incompetence, who is hired to pilot a crew into space to create a pirate reality show (see Media Landscape); it is the first of a projected trilogy. [JC]
Cassutt, Michael
(1954- ) US scriptwriter/producer for Television, and author who began publishing sf with "A Second Death" in Amazing for June 1974. His numerous television credits include serving as staff writer for The Twilight Zone in 1986 and story editor for Max Headroom in 1987; he has also written scripts of Farscape ...
Miller, Phyllis
(1920-2001) US librarian and author who collaborated with Andre Norton on three novels for children. Seven Spells to Sunday (1979) and House of Shadows (1984) are Fantasies, the former featuring travel to a magical Dimension and the latter being a supernatural thriller; Ride the Green Dragon (1985) is a nonfantastic tale of mystery and suspense. [DRL]
Brown, Douglas
(1907-1976) UK journalist, foreign correspondent and author of sf significance for Loss of Eden: A Cautionary Tale (1940; vt If Hitler Comes: A Cautionary Tale 1941) with Christopher Serpell, a strong Hitler Wins tale, presented as the witness manuscript of a contemporary New Zealander discovered much later in Wellington, New Zealand after a volcano has ...
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 ...