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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Film (1983). Delphi Productions/Columbia. Directed by Lamont Johnson. Written by David Preston, Edith Rey, Dan Goldberg, Len Blum, from a story by Stewart Harding, Jean Lafleur. Cast includes Ernie Hudson, Michael Ironside, Molly Ringwald and Peter Strauss. 90 minutes (but reported as being originally 105 minutes). Made in 3D. Colour. / Bedevilled with production problems, changing directors in midstream (it was begun by Jean Lafleur), suffering from the ominous stigma of six ...
Kesteven, G R
Pseudonym of UK teacher and author Geoffrey Robins Crosher (1911-1990), some of whose stories for children were published under his own name. Of sf interest are two Young Adult novels: The Pale Invaders (1974), a Ruined Earth tale set in the Far Future and describing the effect upon an isolated valley culture of the discovery of Technologies which reveal ...
Green, Hilary
(? - ) UK author of Centrifuge (1978), a routine sf adventure for Robert Hale Limited. [JC]
Labonté, Richard
(1949-2022) Canadian author, journalist, book dealer, critic and editor, active in Fandom since the 1960s, often bylined Richard Labonte without the accent. His many LGBT-themed anthologies – three of which won Lambda Literary Awards – include the genre-relevant The Future Is Queer (anth 2006) with Lawrence Schimel, whose contributors include Candas Jane ...
Out 1
French film (1971; vt Out 1: Noli Me Tangere). Sunshine Productions, Stéphane Tchalgadjieff. Written and directed by Jacques Rivette, in collaboration with Suzanne Schiffman; loosely based on Histoire de Treize (1833-1835) by Honoré de Balzac, with dialogue largely improvised by the cast. Cast includes Juliet Berto, Françoise Fabian, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, ...
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 ...