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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the circumambient galactic Deep, in which very few stars ...
Rosenman, John B
(1941- ) US academic and author, most of whose large output (which includes more than 300 stories) is horror, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Vacation" in The Horror Show for Fall 1983. His first novel, Beyond Those Distant Stars (2003), proved typical of much of his work, being a broad-gauge Space Opera whose protagonist (here a transfigured woman) may be a Cyborg ...
Johnny Jupiter
US tv series (1953-1954). Kagran and Stone Associates for DuMont Television Network/ABC Television Network. Created by Martin Stone. Produced by Stone, Jerome Coopersmith. Directors included Frank Bunetta, Ben Gradus and Howard Magwood. Writers included Coopersmith, William Kendall Clarke and Sam Rockingham. Cast includes Cliff Hall, Wright King, Gilbert Mack, Pat Peardon and Vaughn Taylor. Voice cast: Coopersmith, Carl Harms and Gil Mack. Puppeteers: Harms, Gene London (as Phil London). ...
McAllister, Angus
(1943-2023) Scottish solicitor, academic and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Superstition" in Impulse magazine (see Science Fantasy) for June 1966. His first novel published in English, The Krugg Syndrome (1988), is a mild-mannered and amusing tale of a country boy in the big City of Glasgow whose personality has been replaced by that of an Alien Krugg ...
Creature Commandos
US animated tv series (2024-current). Warner Bros Animation, DC Studios. Based on the DC Comics Comic created by J M DeMatteis and Pat Broderick; this version developed and written by James Gunn. Directed by Sam Liu and Matt Peters. Voice cast includes Maria Bakalova, Stephanie Beatriz, Anya Chalotra, Zoë Chao, Viola Davis, Frank Grillo, Sean Gunn, David Harbour, Peter Serafinowicz, Alan Tudyk and Indira Varma. Seven 21-28 ...
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 ...