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Canadian-American tv series (1998). Production companies included Chesler/Perlmutter Productions and River of Stone Productions, for The Sci-Fi Channel. Created by Lewis Chesler and Jeremy Lipp. Executive producers included Lewis Chesler, David Perlmutter and Mary Sparacio. Directors included John Greyson, Clark Johnson and Jorge Montesi. Writers included Lewis Chesler, Jeremy Lipp and Miguel Tejada-Flores. Actors included Mayim Bialik, Rachel Hayward, Suzy Joachim, Megan Leitch, Michael ...
Goldsmith, Martin M
(1913-1994) US screenwriter and author in whose Shadows at Noon (1943), a Near Future sf novel set in World War Two, Manhattan (see New York) is bombed by Nazi bombers. Goldsmith wrote two episodes of The Twilight Zone in 1964. [JC]
Phillips, Rog
Working name of US author Roger Phillip (not Phillips as often cited) Graham (1909-1966), a prolific contributor to the sf magazines of the late 1940s and 1950s, often writing as by Craig Browning; married to Mari Wolf 1950-1955. His first story was "Let Freedom Ring!" in December 1945 for Amazing Stories, which, along with its companion magazine Fantastic Adventures, remained his most regular ...
Arikawa Hiro
(1972- ) Japanese author whose work, ostensibly in the Light Novel field, has acquired a weight and respect that has garnered high critical praise, including the Seiun Award, often being published in the increasingly rare hardback format. She swiftly established herself in the first decade of the twenty-first century as a guru for Japan's Millennials, tailoring fiction to meet the ...
Reid, Desmond
A House Name used by at least thirty authors for Sexton Blake Library tales, one of which – The World-Shakers! (1960 chap) by Rex Dolphin (see Peter Saxon) – was a UFO tale. Another – Caribbean Crisis (1962 chap) by James Cawthorn and Michael ...
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 ...