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Leonard, George
(1946- ) US academic and author whose novels include Beyond Control (1975), an effective Horror in SF tale set in a big-City slum hospital where DNA experimentation (see Genetic Engineering) on pregnant underclass women leads to the birth of highly unpleasant Monsters; complicit politicians are of course chiefly concerned to ...
Legends of the Superheroes
US tv mini-series (1979; vt Challenge of the Superheroes). Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC-TV. Characters created for DC Comics by C C Beck, Bob Kane, Gil Kane, Gardner F Fox, others. Executive Producers William Hanna, Joseph Barbera. Produced by Bill Carruthers. Directed by Carruthers, Chris Darley. Written by Peter Gallay, ...
Mutant X
US tv series (2001-2004). Fireworks Entertainment/Tribune Entertainment/Marvel Studios. Syndicated. Created by Avi Arad. Produced by Adam Haight and Peter Mohan. Cast includes Karen Cliche, Forbes March, Victoria Pratt, John Shea, Lauren Lee Smith and Victor Webster. Directors included Andrew Potter, Bill Corcoran, Jorge Mantesi. Writers included Marak Amato, Howard Chaykin and David Newman. 66 44-minute episodes. Colour. / Mutant X is the name ...
Wilson, JJ Amaworo
(1969- ) German-born Nigerian/UK playwright and author, most recently in USA, active since the early 1990s, his early plays and stories being nonfantastic; he has published his academic nonfiction, mostly textbooks on language learning, as JJ Wilson; son of fantasy author David Henry Wilson. He is of initial sf interest for Damnificados (2016), set in a Near Future urban conglomeration ...
Marlowe, Gabriel S
Pseudonym of Austrian-born theatre director, screenwriter and author Gabriel Beer-Hofmann (1901-1971), active from before 1920 in the London scene. As G S Marlowe in the UK and as Gabriel Marlowe in America, he wrote one novel of sf interest, I Am Your Brother (1935), the eponymous sibling being a Monster – a victim of an experiment in Eugenics gone savagely wrong, with an enormous forked tongue and other telling ...
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 ...