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Greenwald, Harry J
Author (? - ) whose one sf novel for Robert Hale Limited is Chinaman's Chance (1981), a Near Future thriller in which a UK Scientist and a Chinese colleague create a new tuber plant called the Winged Bean, a source of both cheap protein with the potential to end Third World famine and combustible fuel which as a ...
Dicks, Terrance
(1935-2019) UK scriptwriter, editor, and author, best known for his involvement in various capacities over many years with Doctor Who (see this entry for more details). His career as scriptwriter for this BBC television series began in the late 1960s with rewrite work on episodes 3-6 of Brian Hayles's season-six storyline The Seeds of Death (25 January-1 March 1969), later in the season he was jointly credited with ...
Welch, Edgar L
(1856/1857-1926) US author who published fiction and nonfiction as by Grip (he is not the UK Grip, an unidentified pseudonym). In 1893 Welch founded a magazine, "Grip's" Valley Gazette, published in Albany, New York, many of whose individual issues were given over to a series of at least twenty "Historical Souvenirs" in which Grip minutely describes various communities in upper New York state. By 1905 or so he became inactive. He is given an entry to ...
Human Vapour, The
Japanese film (1960). Original title Gasu Ningen Daiichigō. Toho. Directed by Ishirō Honda. Written by Takeshi Kimura. Cast includes Tatsuya Mihashi, Fuyuki Murakami, Keiko Sata, Yoshio Tsuchiya and Kaoru Yachigusa. 91 minutes. Colour. / A car chase following a bank robbery ends with the criminal's vehicle going off the road and crashing: the police find the car empty, yet no footprints nearby. When another bank is robbed the metal gate ...
Walsh, Rupert
(? -? ) UK author whose Future War tale, The Fate of the Triple Alliance: A Jeu d'Esprit (1890 chap), roughly predicts the pattern of European alliances whose clash helped launch World War One, though he was less successful in his prediction of the Weapons used, which include electric bayonets and paper armour. This may be due to the author's ...
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 ...