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Ghan, Ben Berman
(? - ) Canadian author whose first book, What We See in the Smoke (coll of linked stories 2019), assembles a pliant array of tales, several set in the Near Future, others set further afield, all related by place or association with the author's native Toronto. The City is seen realistically, and as a kind of reality magnet in world whose future is chaos; ...
Cheney, Matthew
(1976- ) US editor and author, who has been involved in the republication of works by Samuel R Delany, including The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (1978; rev 2009), which he introduced. He began publishing works of genre interest with "Fragments" in Rabid Transit: Menagerie (anth 2005) edited by Ratbastard. A first substantial selection of his work has been assembled as ...
Seeley, Dave
(? - ) US artist of considerable range, whose work covers classic fine-arts territory such as nudes as well as depictions of futuristic hardware and sf, Fantasy and Horror figures; he sometimes signs work as David Seeley. He began to publish interior art of fantasy interest in the 1995 World Fantasy Convention souvenir book, and has been active in the production ...
Cook, Michele
(? - ) US journalist, screenwriter and author who in collaboration with her husband (since 2013) John Sandford wrote the Near Future Young Adult Singular Menace trilogy opening with Uncaged (2014), in which young animal-rights activists attempt to free experimental animals from a research laboratory and find themselves entangled with ...
Ape, The
US film (1940). Monogram Pictures Corp. Directed by William Nigh. Written by Curt (credited here as "Kurt") Siodmak and Richard Carroll, "suggested from the play by Adam Hull Shirk". Cast includes Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Henry Hall, Boris Karloff, Gene O'Donnell and Maris Wrixon. 63 minutes. Black and white. / Dr Bernard Adrian (Karloff) is unpopular in the village where he works, believed to be using his patients as guinea pigs and causing their ...
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 ...