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Vengeance
Film (1963; vt Ein Toter Sucht seiner Mörder; vt The Brain). CCC/Stross/Governor. Directed by Freddie Francis. Written by Robert Stewart, Phil Mackie, based on Donovan's Brain (1943) by Curt Siodmak. Cast includes Anne Heywood, Bernard Lee, Cecil Parker and Peter Van Eyck. 83 minutes. Black and white. / This West German/UK coproduction is the third and least successful film version of Siodmak's novel: the others are ...
Eco, Umberto
(1932-2016) Italian academic and author active from the mid-1950s, famed for his work in history, philosophy, literary criticism and semiotics. His adult novels are not explicitly sf, the closest he came to the genre being in two children's books, La bomba e il generale (1966 chap; trans William Weaver as The Bomb and the General 1989 chap) and I tre cosmonauti (1966 chap; trans William Weaver as The Three Astronauts 1989 chap), in the ...
Creswick, Paul
(1866-1947) UK author, who began publishing work of some genre interest with "The Only Prince" for The Quarto in 1897. Robin Hood and His Adventures (1902; vt Robin Hood 1917) is one of the finest adaptations of the cycle; The Beaten Path: A Fantasy (1924) is a capable ghost story. His only Scientific Romance, The Turning Wheel (1928), is of interest for its combination of mystical themes with ...
Robitaille, Julie
(1949- ) US author of two Ties to Quantum Leap (1989-1993), a Time-Travel Television series. They are Quantum Leap: In the Beginning (1990; vt Quantum Leap: The Beginning 1994) and Quantum Leap: The Ghost and the Gumshoe (1990). [JC]
Lost Horizon
1. Film (1937). Columbia. Directed by Frank Capra. Written by Robert Riskin, based on Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton. Cast includes Ronald Colman, Edward Everett Horton, Sam Jaffe, Thomas Mitchell, H B Warner and Jane Wyatt. 133 minutes, cut to 118 minutes, then to 109 minutes; but 128 minute print (some lost footage being represented by stills) available from 2000. Black and white. / In this memorably sentimental, deft, ...
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 ...