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Hu-Man
French film (1975). Romantique Films, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, Institut national de l'audiovisuel, Filmologies. Directed by Jérôme Laperrousaz. Written by Jérôme Laperrousaz, André Roullan and Guillaume Laperrousaz, with the collaboration of Francis Guilbert. Cast includes Jeanne Moreau, Terence Stamp, Agnès Stevenin and Frederik von Pallandt. 105 minutes. Colour. / ...
Hall, Norman
(1904-? ) Author whose single sf novel for Robert Hale Limited was Green Hailstones (1978). [DRL]
White, Steve
Pseudonym of US army officer and author Robert McGarvey (1948- ), most of whose work is Space Opera, often employing Military SF plots, and usually arrayed in series. His first sequence, the Starfire series – partially written with David Weber, who had developed Starfire, the Wargame to which it is ...
Hall, Austin
(1880-1933) US author who claimed to have written over 600 stories in various pulp genres, mainly Westerns. He began publishing sf and fantasy with "Almost Immortal" for All-Story Weekly, 7 October 1916. "The Rebel Soul" (30 June 1917 All-Story Weekly) and its sequel, the book-length "Into the Infinite" (12 April-17 May 1919 All-Story Weekly), ...
Norwood, Victor
(1920-1983) UK traveller and author who concentrated on Westerns and nonfiction works about exploration. Of some genre interest is the Jacaré the Untamed series of South American jungle adventure tales, loosely derived from Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and mostly sf or fantasy: The Untamed (1951), The Caves of Death (1951), The Temple of the Dead ...
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 ...