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Man Made Monster
US film (1941; vt Atomic Monster). Universal Pictures. Associate Producer Jack Bernhard. Directed by George Waggner. Written by Waggner from the story "The Electric Man" by Harry Essex (credited as H J Essex), Sid Schwartz and Len Golos. Cast includes Frank Albertson, Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr, Samuel S Hinds and Anne Nagel. 59 minutes. Black and white. / "Big" Dan McCormick (Chaney) – a carnival sideshow performer as Dynamo Dan, the Electric Man – survives a ...
Gobsch, Hanns
(1883-1957) German author of some prominence during the Weimar Period; his Future War novel, Wahn-Europa 1934: Eine Vision (1931; trans Ian Fitzherbert Despard Morrow as Death Rattle 1932), depicts from a pacifist leftwing standpoint a Europe descending deliriously into Near Future chaos after France and Italy invade each other; with Russian armies soon invading Poland, a ...
Edwards, Megan
(1952- ) US author, active from the mid 1990s, perhaps best known for her nonfantastic Copper Black detective thriller series beginning with Getting Off On Frank Sinatra: A Copper Black Mystery (2017) [series is not listed below]. She began publishing work of genre interest with "Rubicon" in Mensa Journal for September 2015, which forms the basis for her first sf novel, A Coin for the Ferryman (2022), a ...
Thrills Incorporated
Australian magazine, Pulp format #1-#5, Bedsheet format #6-#12, Digest format #13-#23, numbered, undated, mostly monthly March 1950 to June 1952, published by Associated General Publications, Sydney, company name changed to Transport Publications from #13; mostly edited by (uncredited) by Alister Innes. Thrills Incorporated was intended for adolescents. Although US reprints as such were not used, ...
Irwin, Robert
(1946- ) UK academic and author whose work in Arabian studies, of importance in itself, underpins the world envisioned in his first and most famous novel, The Arabian Nightmare (1983; rev 1987), which may be the definitive rendering of its central conceit: the dream narrative whose protagonist, upon seeming to awaken, only finds himself passing through a Portal into a deeper dream [for Arabian Nightmare and Portal see The ...
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 ...