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Wearmouth, Marcus P
(? - ) UK weapons engineer and author with his brother Darren A Wearmouth of the Activation sequence of Near Future post-Disaster thrillers beginning with First Activation (2011), set initially in a New York dominated by Zombie-like minions of a tyrannical organization bent on ...
Savage, Juanita
(? -? ) UK author of romances published in the 1920s, some of them highly flavoured; of sf interest is The City of Desire (1926), a Lost Race tale set in a mysterious City accessed through Underground passages through which stumbles a young woman, daughter of an explorer searching for his companion who has been lost for two decades, and falls in love with ...
Giant Claw, The
Film (1957). Clover/Columbia. Directed by Fred F Sears. Written by Samuel Newman, Paul Gangelin. Cast includes Morris Ankrum, Mara Corday and Jeff Morrow. 76 minutes. Black and white. / A giant bird from outer space decides to build a nest on Earth. It is conveniently protected by an Antimatter shield, so that attempts to kill it at first prove futile, but eventually the field is nullified by scientists shooting mu-mesons and all ends happily – ...
Merril, Judith
(1923-1997) US-born anthologist, critic and author, in Canada from 1968. Born Josephine Juliet Grossman, she preferred the forename Judith, and became Judith Zissman by her first marriage; she began to use the surname Merril before later marrying Frederik Pohl (1949-1953), and took Judith Merril as her legal name on becoming a Canadian citizen in 1973. She occasionally used the pseudonym Rose Sharon. Merril was associated with the ...
Teramond, Guy
Working name of French teacher, poet, playwright and author Edmond-François Gautier Teramond (1869-1957), who also wrote as Guy de Téramond, Jehan Ferré, Captain George and Franz La Rhoellerie; active from around 1890 as a poet, and from about half a decade later as an author of thrillers, romances, and some sf. The protagonist of L'Homme qui voit à travers les murailles (1913; trans Mary J Safford as The Mystery of Lucien Delorme 1915) as ...
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 ...