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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Murray, Frieda A
(1948- ) US author of fantasy, almost always in collaboration with her husband Roland J Green, who began to publish work of genre interest with Throne of Sherran: The Book of Kantela: A Novel of High Fantasy (1985) with Green; further volumes in the presumably intended Throne of Sherran sequence did not appear. Green and Murray also contributed an Elric story to the Michael ...
Bukiet, Melvin Jules
(1953- ) US author much of whose work is irradiated with fantasticated tropes – the circus, the Polder [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] that protects Jewish children from the Final Solution (see Holocaust Fiction) until the world breaks through, the Island – but does not always carry these transfigurations into ...
Red Planet
Film (2000). Warner Brothers Pictures presents in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment a Mark Canton Production. Directed by Antony Hoffman. Written by Chuck Pfarrer, Jonathan Lemkin. Cast includes Simon Baker, Benjamin Bratt, Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore and Terence Stamp. 106 minutes. Colour. / Six astronauts are sent to Mars to examine why Terraforming efforts are mysteriously ...
Reed, Van
A House Name used for two books published by Curtis Warren, one by Denis Hughes and the other, Dwellers in Space (1953), by an unidentified author. [JC/DRL]
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 ...