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King Dinosaur
Film (1955). Zimgor. Directed by Bert I Gordon. Written by Tom Gries, based on a story by Bert I Gordon and Al Zimbalist. Cast includes William Bryant, Wanda Curtis, Patti Gallagher and Douglas Henderson. 63 minutes. Black and white. / A new planet named Nova wanders into the Solar System near Earth, so the United States rushes to build a Spaceship to visit the planet. Two male and two female ...
Dix, Shane
(1960- ) Welsh-born author in Australia who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Moment" in Thyme Fiction 4 (anth 1990) edited by Peter McNamara, but who has been in Australia for most of his life, where he has written novels exclusively to date in collaboration with Sean Williams, beginning with the first volume of the apparently aborted Cogal sequence, The Unknown Soldier (1995) with Sean ...
Olsen, Geir Arne
(1957-1990) Norwegian underground author, artist and political philosopher, better known under his pen-names Leonard Borgzinner and Leon Latex; his varied works include short stories of a high literary quality, essays on Samuel R Delany and Harlan Ellison, articles on technology versus ecology, punk rock from The Velvet Underground to The Clash, et cetera. Acclaimed editor since his early teens, ...
Star Wars [franchise]
At the heart of this now very substantial enterprise is the Cinema sequence whose first instalment was Star Wars (1977). To the end of 2017, there have been nine Star Wars films. In 1997, before the release of the second, "prequel" trilogy, George Lucas re-released the original films into cinemas with updated special effects and minor story changes as "Special Editions". These changes were ...
Sherrer, Lydia
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with the Post-Holocaust sf story Hope (in Apocalypse Chronicles, anth 2016, ed Rosie Gailor and Marek Lewandowski; 2016 ebook). At about the same time she began to release the popular urban fantasy sequence The Lily Singer Adventures, opening with Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings (2016) [see Checklist ...
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 ...