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Photo Fiends
US review-size Cinema/Television Fanzine. Publisher: Tim Paxton as Kronos Productions. No editor named. Three numbered, undated issues, 1978. / This short-lived fanzine, of better quality than many such publications, offered material on such television programmes as The Outer Limits (1963-1965) and Space: 1999 ...
Lang, Allen Kim
(1928- ) US author who began publishing sf with "Machine of Klamugra" for Planet Stories in November 1950 and published a good number of action stories in the following decade: twenty titles are recorded, including the comic novella "Cinderella Story" (May 1961 If), and "Blind Man's Lantern" (December 1962 Analog), in which hoped ...
Hill, Peter
(? - ) UK author and Television scriptwriter, formerly a detective inspector in the London Metropolitan Police, now living in New Zealand; his novels include several crime thrillers not listed below. He began to publish work of sf interest with Survivors: Genesis of a Hero (1977) as by John Eyers, Tie to the Television series ...
Quaggiato, R R
(? - ) US author in whose The Republic: Traitor (2017) an unelected President, in a Near Future America which has just suffered the loss by assassination of both houses of Congress, establishes an idealistic Dystopia, but begins to lose his mind under the stress of terrorist plots. [JC]
Adam and Eve
Brian W Aldiss has given the name Shaggy God Stories to stories which provide simple-minded sf frameworks for Biblical myths. A considerable fraction of the unsolicited material submitted to sf magazines is or was reputed to consist of stories of this kind, the plot most frequently represented being the one in which survivors of a space disaster land on a virgin world and reveal (in the final line) that their names are ...
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 ...