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Fisher, James P
(? - ) US author whose sf novel The Great Brain Robbery (1970) is a rather lightweight adventure in which an Alien inveigles a student to its home planet, where it has nefarious uses for his unusual brain. [JC]
Bogoraz, Vladimir Germanovitch
(1865-1936) Soviet anthropologist and linguist, who also signed himself Waldemar Bogoras and Tan-Bogoraz; a central figure in the study of the Chukchee language of Siberia, on which he published definitively. His sf novel, Zhertvy drakona (1927; trans Stephen Graham as Sons of the Mammoth 1929 US as by Waldemar Bogoras), is Prehistoric SF which reflects his professional concerns in a tale whose Neanderthal protagonists encounter ...
Wild in the Streets
Film (1968). American International Pictures (AIP). Directed by Barry Shear. Written by Robert Thom from his own story, "The Day It All Happened, Baby!" (original publication not found). Cast includes Hal Holbrook, Christopher Jones, Millie Perkins, Richard Pryor, Diane Varsi and Shelley Winters. 97 minutes. Colour. / Senator Johnny Fergus (Holbrook), a Kennedy-style senator from ...
Manvell, Roger
(1909-1987) UK author, mostly on aspects of World War Two and on the cinema – including The Animated Film: With Pictures Taken from the Film "Animal Farm" by Halas & Batchelor (1954 chap) (see George Orwell), a study of the first feature-length animated film to be made in the UK. His sf novel, The Dreamers (1958), is a tale of revenge via a dream transmitted to the intended victim by ...
Gammon, Hana
(2002- ) South African author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Undertaker's Apprentice" in Granta for 12 May 2023; her first novel, The Specimens (2024), set initially in a Keep-like carceral research facility apparently in the Near Future, intensely explores the responses of a Telepathic inmate to constant experimentation, and to a growing ...
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 ...