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Timlett, Peter Valentine
(1933-2013) UK author whose sf/fantasy Atlantis trilogy – The Seedbearers (1974), The Power of the Serpent (1976) and Twilight of the Serpent (1977) – deals in occasionally occult terms with Atlantis and its fall, moving subsequently to the founding of civilization in Britain by survivors of the collapse, who hope that Atlantean impulses might be preserved on the new Island. ...
Lupoff, Richard A
(1935-2020) US author who worked in computers until he became a full-time writer in 1970; he also used the pseudonym Addison Steele. He was first active in sf Fandom; the fanzine Xero, which he co-edited with his wife Pat, won a Hugo in 1963. A series of articles therein about Comics later formed the core of All in Color for a Dime (anth 1970), which Lupoff co-edited with Don ...
Mosura
Film (1961; vt Mothra). Toho. Directed by Ishirō Honda. Written by Shinichi Sekizawa, based on a story by Shinichiro Nakamura, Takehido Fukunaga and Yoshi Hotta, much later translated by Jeffrey Angles as The Luminous Fairies and Mothra (2026). Cast includes Emi Ito, Yumi Ito, Kyoko Kagawa, Hiroshi Koizumi and Frankie Sakai. 100 minutes. Colour. / Aficionados of Japanese Monster Movies find their delight not only in the ...
Smith, George Albert
(1864-1959) Pioneering UK filmmaker (see Cinema), sometimes referred to as G A Smith. Initially a stage hypnotist and part of an act with Douglas Blackburn involving mind-reading (see Telepathy) and second sight (see ESP), Smith joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1883. He worked with Edmund Gurney, who was investigating Hypnotism, telepathy and suchlike: Smith, along with ...
Teixeira, Kevin
(? - ) US author whose Near Future sf novel, A Virtual Soul (1999), follows the adventures of a Genetically Engineered Slave, victim of a Dystopian world conceived in Cyberpunk terms, as he attempts to acquire and assert a human-like Identity. ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...