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Taylor, Ray Ward
(1908-1987) US author of a Cold War Technothriller, Doomsday Square (1966), about an arms race to develop a doomsday weapon to succeed the nuclear bomb; as usual in stories of this vintage, America develops the weapon wisely but traitors give away the secret the enemy. [JC]
Hill, Douglas
(1935-2007) Canadian-born author and editor, in the UK from 1959; in 2007 he was run over by a bus. Most of his early books were nonfiction, The Supernatural (1965) with Pat Williams, and Magic and Superstition (1968) being of interest to a genre audience. His involvement in sf and fantasy began through his editing of anthologies like Window on the Future: Science Fiction Stories (anth 1966), Way of the Werewolf: An Anthology of Horror Stories ...
Machine, La
French film (1994). France 2 Cinéma, Hachette Première, M6 Films. Directed by François Dupeyron. Written by René Belletto and François Dupeyron. Cast includes Nathalie Baye, Erwin Baynaud, Didier Bourdon, Gérard Depardieu and Natalia Wörner. 96 minutes. Colour. / Psychiatrist Marc Lacroix (Depardieu) secretly devises a Machine which will link his mind to another person, allowing him to study their thought ...
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Film (1953; vt Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde). Universal-International Pictures. Directed by Charles Lamont. Screenplay by Howard Dimsdale (uncredited), John Grant and Leo Loeb based loosely on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson. Cast includes Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Eddie Parker (uncredited), Craig Stevens, Helen Westcott. 76 minutes. Black and ...
Timms, E V
(1895-1960) Australian screenwriter and author who was in active service during World War One; his books for adults are nonfantastic, but his children's fiction include two Lost Race tales: The Valley of Adventure: A Story for Boys (1926), which finds a secret enclave deep in the Australian outback to be inhabited by aborigines, who pose a threat to White Australians; and The Cities Under the Sea ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...