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Object Z
UK tv series (1965). Associated-Rediffusion Television. Produced and directed by Daphne Shadwell. Written by Chris McMaster. Cast includes William Abney, Celia Bannerman, Trevor Bannister, Brandon Brady, Margaret Neale, Ralph Nossek, Denys Peek and Julian Somers. Six 24-minute episodes. Black and white. / Professor Ramsay (Nossek) and other Scientists report that a meteoroid with a diameter of six or more miles is on collision course with Earth, ...
Shadowrun
Role Playing Game (1989). FASA. Designed by Bob Charrette, Tom Dowd, Paul Hume. / The setting for Shadowrun is a curious Science and Sorcery fusion of high Fantasy and Cyberpunk, an innovation which greatly appealed to many players but has resulted in adverse comments on its aesthetics from, amongst ...
Ehrlich, Paul R
(1932- ) US academic and author of The Population Bomb (1968), an influential – though often described as alarmist – text which predicts Disaster as a result of Overpopulation. Various gloomy Predictions about damage to Ecology are fictionalized in his short "Eco-Catastrophe!" (September 1969 Ramparts). ...
Dreamwatch
UK oversized Media Magazine printed on a mix of middle-quality and slick paper. Published first by Dreamwatch Publishing, then Titan Magazines 1983 to 2007. Editors included Anthony Clark, Gary Leigh, Brian J Robb and Paul Simpson. 150 issues; publication schedule was generally monthly. / The magazine began in July 1983 as Doctor Who Bulletin, a Fanzine devoted to the Television programme ...
Battle beyond the Stars
Film (1980). New World. Executive producer Roger Corman. Director Jimmy T Murakami. Written by John Sayles, based on a story by Sayles, Anne Dyer. Cast includes Sybil Danning, Steve Davis, George Peppard, John Saxon, Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn and Morgan Woodward. 103 minutes. Colour. / New World, never slow to capitalize on a trend, hoped – with partial success – to woo the ...
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 ...