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Tit-Bits Science Fiction Comics
UK Comic (1953). C Arthur Pearson, Ltd. Six issues. Most artwork and scripts by Ron Turner. 2-3 stories per issue. Cover in colour, but strips in black and white. A seventh issue was completed but not published in the UK, but was later released in France as Aventures de Demain #21 (1957). / Issue #1 opens with "The Dome of Survival": back "in the finite depths of time" (see Time Abyss), Pluto's ...
Struck by Lightning
US tv series (1979). Fellows-Keegan Company/Paramount Television for CBS-TV. Based on characters created by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in Frankenstein (1818; rev 1831). Produced by Michael Friedman. Director Joel Zwick. Writers included Bruce Kelish, Phillip John Taylor, Michael Russnow. Cast includes Jeff Cotler (Brian), Jack Elam, Bill Erwin (Glen Diamond), Jeffrey Kramer, Millie Slavin (Nora) and Richard Stahl ...
Stanley, John
(1940- ) US author, much of whose work has been devoted to nonfiction studies of Cinema Monsters. Creature Features Movie Guide: an A to Z Encyclopedia of the Cinema of the Fantastic; Or, Is There a Mad Doctor in the House? (1981) and its expansions do a competent job of justifying their titles. Stanley is of sf interest for two novels. In World War III (1976), with ...
Ohlson, Hereward
(1907-1955) UK author of the Thunderbolt Children's SF sequence comprising Thunderbolt of the Spaceways (1954) and Thunderbolt and the Rebel Planet: The Captain of the Spaceways Leads an Expedition to the Strange World of Pluvius (1954), both being undemanding Space Operas. [JC]
Scherm, Rebecca
(circa 1985- ) US author whose first novel, Unbecoming (2015), explores in nonfantastic terms conundrums of Identity. Her second novel, A House Between Earth and the Moon (2022), which is Near Future sf set mainly in a Space Station, uses the intensive Zone of this under-development luxury resort, which could also be ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...