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Sweterlitsch, Tom
(? - ) US author who also signs his name Thomas Sweterlitsch; he began to publish work of genre interest with "The Disposable Man" in Something Wicked SF and Horror Magazine for February 2012, a Satire on post 9/11 American Politics. Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2015) is set mostly in a Virtual Reality Keep embedded in the ...
Slout, William L
(? - ) US actor, academic, playwright and author whose courtroom drama, The Trial of Dr Jekyll [for full title see checklist] (performed 1993 Theatre Department, California State University, San Bernardino; 1993 chap), modernizes but does not expand upon the original novella by Robert Louis Stevenson in its placing of Jekyll in the dock. [JC]
Metal Men
A team of DC Comics Superheroes, introduced in Showcase #37 (March/April 1962) and subsequently featured in their own comic Metal Men from April 1963. They are Robots built by Scientist Will "Doc" Magnus, each consisting entirely of a single Element – Gold, Iron, Lead, Mercury, Platinum, and Tin – and referred to by ...
Toxic Avenger, The
Film (1984). HCH/Troma/Palan. Directed by Michael Herz, Samuel Weil. Written by Joe Ritter, based on a story by Lloyd Kaufman. Cast includes Mitchell Cohen, Andree Maranda and Mark Torgl. 100 minutes, cut to 79 minutes. Colour. / After a cruel practical joke is played on him, a teenage nerd falls into a barrel of toxic waste in Tromaville, New Jersey, "Toxic Waste Capital of America". He mutates (see Mutants) into the low-budget ...
Stadt ohne Juden, Die
["The City Without Jews"] Austrian film (1924). H K Breslauer-Film. Directed by H K Breslauer. Written by Hugo Bettauer from the novel Die Stadt ohne Juden (1922), and by Breslauer. Cast includes Hans Moser, Anny Miletty, Eugen Neufeld, Johannes Riemann, Karl Terna. 80 minutes. Black and white. / Hugo Bettauer's original novel, a comic Satire set ...
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 ...