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Teramond, Guy
Working name of French teacher, poet, playwright and author Edmond-François Gautier Teramond (1869-1957), who also wrote as Guy de Téramond, Jehan Ferré, Captain George and Franz La Rhoellerie; active from around 1890 as a poet, and from about half a decade later as an author of thrillers, romances, and some sf. The protagonist of L'Homme qui voit à travers les murailles (1913; trans Mary J Safford as The Mystery of Lucien Delorme 1915) as ...
Trueman, Chrysostom
Pseudonym of UK author H Cowen (? -? ) who identified himself, under this pseudonym, as "Editor" of The History of a Voyage to the Moon (1864) [for full title see Checklist], a Proto-SF tale whose author remained unidentified until a copy was auctioned in 2014 at the Swann Galleries of New York, containing "an inscription identifying the author as H Cowen." As of 2023, this or some other similarly inscribed copy had ...
Dearen, Patrick
(1951- ) US author, almost exclusively of Westerns set in Texas, in his native Pecos country; he began his career, however, with two sf novels: The Shakwa (1979) with Al Kinney Jr, writing together as Gene March, whose protagonist is drawn through Hyperspace into a kind of dreamland, where he becomes the eponymous figure of great power and destiny; and Starflight to Faroul (1980), a ...
Spider-Woman
US animated tv series (1979-1980). DePatie-Freleng Enterprises/Marvel Comics Animation for ABC-TV. Created for television by Stan Lee based on a character created by Archie Goodwin. Produced by Lee Gunther. Directed by Bob Richardson. Writers included Jeffrey Scott and Tom Swale. Cast includes Bruce Miller, Bryan Scott and Joan Van Ark. Sixteen 30-minute episodes. Colour. / When young, Jessica Drew (Van Ark) was bitten by a poisonous spider; her father ...
Knowing
Film (2009). Summit Entertainment presents an Escape Artists in association with Mystery Clock Cinema/Goldcrest Pictures/Kaplan-Perrone Entertainment/Wintergreen Productions production. Directed by Alex Proyas. Written by Ryne Douglas Pearson and Juliet Snowden & Stiles White; story by Pearson. Cast includes Rose Byrne, Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury and Lara Robinson. 121 minutes. Colour. / An MIT ...
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 ...