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Shores, Louis
(1904-1981) US librarian and author born Louis Steinberg, who changed his name to Shores in 1926; most of his published work was in library science. Of some sf interest is Looking Forward (1972), a lightly-fictionalized Future History in which America goes through a time of troubles, emerging triumphant during the 1990s. [JC]
Science Comics
US Comic (1940). Fox Publications, Inc. Eight issues. Artists include Emil Gershwin, Jack Kirby, George Tuska and Bert Whitman. Seven comic strips and a two-page text story per issue, plus an occasional one-page strip of scientific facts. / There are seven series in each issue. The Eagle is a young Scientist who discovered an anti-gravitation fluid (see Gravity): when ...
Prichard, Hesketh
Working name of Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard (1876-1922), UK author, sportsman, explorer and naturalist, in active service during World War One; throughout his career, he collaborated with his mother Kate Prichard (1851-1935), the two writing as "E & H Heron" and as "K and Hesketh Prichard". They created three very popular series characters: the bandit Don Q, who featured in many adventures beginning with The Chronicles of Don Q ...
Livingston, Berkeley
Working name of the US author born Berkeley Beryl Levinstein (1909-1975), who began to publish work of genre interest with "I'll Be There With Music" Fantastic Adventures for June 1943, publishing his fifty or so stories in that magazine and in its Ziff-Davis stablemate Amazing. He wrote under his own name, as by Burt B Liston, B E Liston and Lester Barclay; he also contributed work under the ...
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Film (1971). Apjac/Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Don Taylor. Written be Paul Dehn, based on characters created by Pierre Boulle. Cast includes Bradford Dillman, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy and William Windom. 97 minutes. Colour. / This is the third of the five Planet of the Apes films. When screenwriter Paul Dehn had been working ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...