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Blakemore, Felix J
(1872-1948) UK author of The Coming Hour (1927), a dreadful-warning Near Future Dystopia set in an England run by socialists, who are voted out of office in 1946. This was not prescient of Felix J Blakemore. [JC]
Fantast, The
UK fanzine initially published from Eastleigh, Hampshire, by C S Youd (John Christopher) and from issue #10 (April 1941) by Douglas Webster from Aberdeen, Scotland, with John F Burke (Jonathan Burke) as co-editor for #9 (March 1941) and #10. UK quarto (10 x 8 in), duplicated. Fourteen issues from April 1939 to July 1942; monthly until #7 (October 1939), after which the schedule became irregular. / Typically for its ...
Hub Magazine
UK Online Magazine, with the first two issues as a Print Magazine, published and edited by Lee Harris, The Right Hand in York; Alasdair Stuart was the nonfiction editor but became managing editor from #3 (30 January 2009). The first two issues, dated Christmas 2006 and Winter 2007, were printed in an unconventional format (8.25 x 8.25 in; 210 x 210 mm) on glossy paper (see Slick) with good ...
Sphere
Film (1998). Warner Bros presents a Baltimore Pictures and Constant c production in association with Punch Productions. Directed by Barry Levinson. Written by Paul Attanasio, Stephen Hauser and Kurt Wimmer, based on the novel Sphere (1987) by Michael Crichton. Cast includes Peter Coyote, Marga Gómez, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L Jackson, Queen Latifah, Liev Schreiber and Sharon Stone. 134 minutes. Colour. / ...
New People, The
US tv series (1969-1970) Thomas/Spelling Productions for Paramount Television ABC TV network. Created by Larry Gordon. Produced by Harold Gast. Directors include Charles S Dubin, Harry Harvey Jr and William Wiard. Scriptwriters include Edwin Blum, Paul Dubov, Gast and Stephen Kandel. Rod Serling was reportedly involved in developing the series concept, and may have written some episodes under unidentified pseudonyms. Cast includes Tiffany Bolling, Zooey ...
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 ...