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Drury, David M
(1951- ) US electrical engineer, academic and author whose Jupiter Station sequence, comprising All the Gold of Ophir (2005) and Jupiter's Shadow (2007), is set on a satellite orbiting Jupiter from which suspect substances and other mysteries seem to originate, and follows the search of a private detective for the truth behind the actions of the Conglomerated Mining and Manufacturing Company. [JC]
Dowling, Terry
Working name of Australian lecturer in English, television performer, songwriter and author Terence William Dowling (1947- ). One of the most interesting new voices in 1990s Australian local sf, Dowling has gleaned international praise as well. His master's thesis was, unusually for Australia, about sf – its topic was J G Ballard and the Surrealists. "The Man Who Walks Away behind the Eyes" (May/June ...
Bryher
(1894-1983) UK philanthropist and author, born Annie Winifred Ellerman; she had begun to use Bryher as a pseudonym before the publication of her first book, Region of Lutany (1914 chap) – which was poetry – and eventually took the name by deed poll; she normally wrote simply as Bryher. Her philanthropic activities extended through much of the twentieth century, and included financial support for figures as wide-ranging as Sigmund Freud preparing in 1938 to go into ...
Planet of the Apes
1. Film (1968). Apjac/Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Franklin J Schaffner. Written by Michael Wilson, Rod Serling, based on La planète des singes (1963; trans as Planet of the Apes 1963) by Pierre Boulle. Cast includes Maurice Evans, Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall and James Whitmore. 112 minutes. Colour. / Astronauts crashland on a planet where intelligent ...
Kirk, Hyland C
(1846-1917) US author of speculative nonfiction, including the nonfiction The Possibility of Not Dying (1883); his two books of sf interest are When Age Grows Young (1888), a Utopia set in the Near Future where technological progress has brought felicity and a chance of Immortality; and The Revolt of the Brutes: A Fantasy of the Chicago Fair (1893), a tale of ...
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 ...