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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the circumambient galactic Deep, in which very few stars ...
Fagan, Oisin
(?1991- ) Irish author whose first book, The Hierophants (2016 chap), a self-reflexive fable conspicuously evocative of the work of Flann O'Brien. His first full-length title, Hostages (coll of linked stories 2016), exuberantly mixes Irish Mythology, spoofed Myth of Origin tropes [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under ...
British Fantasy Society Bulletin
Fanzine published by the first British Fantasy Society. Edited by D R Smith. 28 issues from June 1942 to November 1946, on a schedule generally varying between monthly and bimonthly. / This was the Newszine of the first British Fantasy Society, formed in 1942 and continuing to 1946. Following three issues of the tentatively titled ...
Kennedy, James
(1973- ) US software engineer and author whose first novel, The Order of Odd-Fish (2008), is a Young Adult fantasy whose orphan protagonist begins to come of age through a Fantastic Journey through an exorbitant Wonderland expectedly in search of her true nature, which she finds. Kennedy is of interest for his second novel, Dare to Know (2021), in which the ...
Love War, The
Made-for-tv film (1970). Paramount/ABC-TV. Directed by George McCowan. Written by Guerdon Trueblood, David Kidd. Cast includes Harry Basch, Lloyd Bridges, Angie Dickinson and Dan Travanti. 74 minutes. Colour. / Six Aliens from two warring planets arrive on Earth for a duel to the death to decide which of those planets is the victor. Four are eliminated; one survivor (Bridges) opts to try to stop the fight, remain on Earth, merge with the natives, and have a ...
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 ...