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Lost Saucer, The
Juvenile tv series (1975). Krofft Entertainment for ABC-TV. Executive producers Sid and Marty Krofft (see The Krofft Brothers). Directors included Dick Dorley, Walter C Miller and Jack Regas. Writers included Barry E Blitzer, John L Greene, and Seaman Jacobs. Cast includes Ruth Buzzie, Jarrod Johnson, Jim Nabors and Alice Playten. Sixteen 30-minute episodes. Colour. / Two friendly Aliens who seem to be ...
Maughan, Tim
(1973- ) Scottish journalist and author now resident in Canada, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Havana Augmented" in Ergosphere (anth 2010) edited by Rick Novy; Paintwork (coll 2011), assembles three post-Cyberpunk stories dominated by Maughan's exceedingly alert sense of twenty-first developments in online Technology (see Internet) and ...
Harris, Richard R
(? - ) US author of The Martian Solution (1997 chap), a short sf novel set on Mars featuring a woman detective. [JC]
Wilson, David Henry
(1937- ) UK translator, teacher, playwright and author, resident in Europe and Africa for many years, latterly in the UK again; father of JJ Amawaro Wilson. Much of his work comprises picture books for younger readers, like the Jeremy James sequence beginning with Elephants Don't Sit on Cars (coll 1979) [series not listed below]. The Superdog sequence beginning with Superdog (1987), spoofs ...
Green, I G
Pseudonym of US author Ira Greenblatt (? - ), in whose Time Beyond Time (1971) the hero is either killed by lightning or caught in a "time-nexus" and cast into a disease-free Atlantis, where he finds himself immortal and becomes embroiled in many exciting adventures with other characters similarly displaced in time and space. [JC]
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 ...