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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
UK tv series (1967-1968). A Century 21 Production for ITC. Created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Produced by Reg Hill. Script editor Tony Barwick. Writers included Barwick (most episodes), Shane Rimmer. Directors included Brian Burgess, Ken Turner, Alan Perry, Bob Lynn. One season, 32 25-minute episodes. Colour. / This was the fifth sf television series made by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson in SuperMarionation ...
Minnett, Cora
Pseudonym of Australian actress and author Minnie Warren Jones (1868-? ), who also wrote as Pellew Hawker; in England from 1910 until at least 1918, when [according to Steve Holland's researches; see under links below] all trace of her is lost. According to Holland's research, she seems to have been a confidence artist, selling non-existent or misdescribed Australian plots of land to English victims. Of sf interest is one novel, ...
Jensen, Norman
(1933- ) UK author of The Galactic Colonizers (1971), an sf adventure for Robert Hale Limited involving encounters with unusual Aliens. [JC]
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). ...
Priestley, Margaret
(1920-2005) UK academic historian and author who, with Meriol Trevor, created in childhood a Parallel World called the World Dionysius, a Shared World where both later set several novels. Priestley's were The Ring of Fortune (1948), the first to be published, The Three Queens (1950) and Tomay Is Loyal (1951). They were marginally less ...
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 ...