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Conway, Gerard F
(1952- ) US author who began his career in Comics, writing some non-fantastic scripts for Marvel Comics; he began publishing sf with "Through the Dark Glass" in Amazing for November 1970. His first sf novel was The Midnight Dancers (1971). Mindship (in Universe 1, anth 1971, ed Terry Carr; exp 1974) is a ...
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Film (1979). Paramount. Produced by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Robert Wise. Written by Harold Livingston, from a story by Alan Dean Foster. Cast includes the lead players from the Star Trek television series, along with Stephen Collins and Persis Khambatta. 132 minutes (released with additional material on ...
Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy, The
Mexican film (1957); original title La Momia Azteca contra el Robot Humano; vt The Aztec Mummy Against the Humanoid Robot. Cinematográfica Calderón S.A. Directed by Rafel Portillo. Written by Alfredo Salazar. Cast includes Crox Alvarado, Rosita Arenas, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Ángel Di Stefani and Ramón Gay. 64 minutes. Black and white. / Scientist Dr Eduardo Almada (Gay), joined ...
Wehrenberg, Charles
(1944- ) US engineer and author, active in the latter capacity from the late 1960s. Most of his work, some of it evocatively flagrant, is nonfantastic, like the exorbitant historical thriller Oda's Web (1995), beginning the Perret series featuring a rampageous spy; though some of the stories assembled as Radio Reactive Apples: Stories (coll 1995) edgily evoke elements of Fantastika. WillBall ...
Ennes, Hiron
(? - ) US musician and author whose first novel Leech (2022), set in the distant Near Future, in a fastness (see Zone) known as the Interprovincial Medical Institute, nerve centre for a kind of distributed Hive Mind comprised of the world's remaining medical doctors, whose/its primary mission is to protect Homo sapiens from the ...
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 ...