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Greatorex, Wilfred
(1922-2002) UK editor, producer and scriptwriter for various Television series, most of them initially created by him as well, beginning with Probation Officer (1959-1962). He is of sf interest for 1990, creating and writing most of the scripts for this thirteen-part television series, as well as participating in a novelization Tied to the series, 1990 (1977), the main writer being ...
Bedford, K A
(1963- ) Australian author whose sf novel, Orbital Burn (2003), complexly depicts an undead female detective (she is kept alive by Nanotechnology after a hacker has infected her biosystems) who is urged by a talking dog on the colony planet Kestrel to trace his master, an Android lad behind whose fabrication by Aliens lie secrets sufficient to save (or destroy) the ...
Prototype
Videogame (2009). Radical Entertainment (RE). Designed by Eric Holmes, Dennis Detwiller. Platforms: PS3, Win, XB360. / In Prototype, the hero is a Monster. In present-day Manhattan, an unknown virus is radically mutating the population, turning them into grotesque Zombie-like killers. The player's character, Alex Mercer, is a Superpowered amnesiac, a ...
Invasion: Earth [tv]
UK tv series (1998). BBC co-production with the Sci Fi Channel. Created, written and co-produced by Jed Mercurio. Directed by Patrick Lau and Richard Laxton. Cast includes Anton Lesser, Maggie O'Neill, Vincent Regan and Fred Ward. Six 50-minute episodes. Colour. / The Blitz, 1944: Lieutenant Charles Tyrell (Lesser) leads a UK bomb disposal squad that finds a crashed UFO containing two obvious Aliens. One is shot and Tyrell makes ...
Féval, Paul
(1816-1887) French lawyer, editor and author, active from the late 1830s until around 1880; father of Paul Féval fils. He first came to prominence as an extremely prolific author of tales written according to the demands of the feuilleton: short chapters inserted at frequent regular intervals, usually daily or weekly, into newspapers, a demanding format successfully exploited by French authors like Alexandre ...
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 ...