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Moore, Chris
(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...
Atomic Rulers
Japanese/US film (1965; vt Atomic Rulers of the World). Shintoho. Directed by Teruo Ishii. Written by Ichiro Miyagawa. Cast includes Ken Utsui. 75 minutes. Black and white. / This film was edited from episodes 1 and 2 of the Japanese Super Giant film series (see Tokusatsu): Super Giant (1957; 49 minutes; original title Sūpā Jaiantsu) and Super Giant Continues (1957; 52 ...
Thornton, John
(? -? ) UK author of A Voyage to Immanuel's Land [full title in Checklist below] (1826) anonymous, a Fantastic Voyage devoted to the promulgation of Christian doctrine, allegorized on the model of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1677-1684), not deftly. [JC]
Snow Creature, The
US film (1954). Planet Filmways, Inc/United Artists. Produced and directed by W Lee Wilder. Written by Myles Wilder from his original story. Special effects by Lee Zavitz. Cast includes Rudolph Anders, Leslie Denison, Darlene Fields, Paul Langton, Rollin Moriyama, William Phipps (credited as Bill Phipps) and Teru Shimada. 71 minutes cut to 69 minutes. Black and white. / A botanical expedition in the Himalayan ...
Invaders from Mars
1. Film (1953). National Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by William Cameron Menzies. Written by Richard Blake (and John Tucker Battle, uncredited). Cast includes Helena Carter, Leif Erickson, Arthur Franz and Jimmy Hunt. 78 minutes (82 minutes in Europe). Colour. / A small, disturbing, curiously memorable film by the director of Things to Come (1936), made for children but capable of terrifying them. Through a little boy's ...
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 ...