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Broderick, Damien
(1944-2025) Australian author, editor and critic; he had a PhD in the semiotics of fiction, science and sf with special reference to the work of Samuel R Delany. He edited four anthologies of Australian sf: The Zeitgeist Machine (anth 1977), Strange Attractors (anth 1985), Matilda at the Speed of Light (anth 1988) and Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (anth ...
Johnstone, Doug
(1970- ) Scottish musician, journalist and author, active from the mid 1990s; his first novel, Tombstoning (2006), like almost all his work, is nonfantastic, set in Scotland, and can be read as a thriller [not listed below]. He may be best known for the Skelfs sequence beginning with A Dark Matter (2019), following the complex lives of the inheritors of a funeral home who also, inter alia, work as private investigators, with ...
Campbell, Hazel
(? -? ) UK author of adventure thrillers, one of which is of direct sf interest. The eponymous servants in The Servants of the Goddess (1928), a Lost Race tale set in the Himalayas, are an enslaved race of subhumans (see Apes as Human) who mine for gold and serve as soldiers. The Secret Brotherhood (1929) is a supernatural adventure set in India. [JC]
McCloy, Helen
(1904-1994) US author, mostly of detective novels; she also wrote as Helen Clarkson. Through a Glass, Darkly (1950) is supernatural horror involving Doppelgangers. The Last Day: A Novel of the Day After Tomorrow (April 1958 Satellite Science Fiction; much exp 1959) as by Clarkson is a Near Future sf novel on an Island off the ...
Road to Hong Kong, The
Film (1962). Melnor. Directed by Norman Panama. Written by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. Cast includes Joan Collins, Bing Crosby, Walter Gotell, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and Robert Morley. 91 minutes. Black and white. / Veteran con-men Harry Turner (Crosby) and Chester Babcock (Hope) have lured 400 investors with their latest scam, an "Interplanetary Spacecraft" from "Fly-It-Yourself, Inc." that is actually little more than a propeller cap and jet pack worn by Babcock on a modest, ...
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 ...