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Snowbeast
US made-for-tv film (1977). Douglas S Cramer Productions/NBC. Produced by Wilfred Lloyd Baumes. Directed by Herb Wallerstein. Written by Joseph Stefano. Cast includes Robert Logan, Yvette Mimieux, Sylvia Sidney, Bo Svenson and Clint Walker. 86 minutes. Colour. / A pair of young women at a Colorado ski resort are attacked and killed by something not clearly seen, an incident which is at first blamed upon a rogue bear. Head ski-patrol director Tony Rill (Logan) realizes at once that ...
SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship, The
The current (since 2019) self-descriptive name of the Science Fiction Research Association's major career honour, formerly the Pilgrim Award – in which entry, for convenience, a full retrospective list is maintained. [DRL] Winners 2019: John Rieder 2020: Sherryl Vint 2021: Veronica ...
Web Terror Stories
US Digest-size weird fiction magazine. Published by Robert C Sproul (1920-2007) as Candar Publishing Company. Credited editor was Sproul. Eight issues, August 1962 to June 1965. Publication, nominally quarterly, was in fact erratic. / This title has a complex history involving several name changes. It began as Saturn, which Sproul had published briefly from 1957 to 1958; this continued as the crime magazine ...
Christian, Deborah
(1956- ) US author whose first novel, Mainline (1996), is an sf thriller involving much action in Parallel Worlds; the protagonist possesses a limited Psi-based ability to shift from one reality to another, in the course of committing industrial espionage through "back doors", but if she shifts too far cannot find her way back. Complications ensue when she falls in love, and attempts to keep ...
Haynes, Simon
(? - ) Australian author the Spacejock series of sf comedy adventures beginning with Hal Spacejock (2001; rev 2005), Hal Spacejock: Second Course (2003) and Hal Spacejock: Just Desserts (2004). The comic effects have, for some, been reminiscent of the British television series Red Dwarf (1988-current). [JC]
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 ...