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Brown, Pierce
(1988- ) US author whose Red Rising sequence, comprising Red Rising (2014), Golden Son (2015) and Morning Star (2016), soon proves more interesting than its Young Adult Dystopia trappings might hint. The tale is set on Mars, where society is divided into castes according to imposed colour branding [for Colour-Coding, as more usually ...
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Film (1989). Paramount. Directed by William Shatner. Written by David Loughery from a story by Shatner, Harve Bennett, Loughery. Cast includes the lead players from the Star Trek television series, along with Laurence Luckinbill. 107 minutes. Colour. / A visibly middle-aged, overweight crew enact a tepid melodrama in which the Enterprise is hijacked by a charismatic Vulcan healer, Sybok (Luckinbill), in search of ...
Fantastic Adventures
US Pulp magazine published by Ziff-Davis as a companion to Amazing Stories; 128 issues May 1939 to March 1953. Fantastic Adventures began as a bimonthly, large-size pulp, but maintained a monthly schedule from January 1940 for most of its existence, shrinking to standard pulp size in June 1940. To December 1949 it was edited nominally by Raymond A Palmer, although ...
Woolfolk, William
(1917-2003) US Comics and Television writer and executive from 1941, and author who also wrote as by Winston Lyon. Most of his fiction, beginning with The Naked Hunter (1953), was nonfantastic. Batman vs the Fearsome Foursome (1966) as by Winston Lyon loosely novelized the film Batman (1966) (see Batman Films), the titular foursome being a team-up of regular ...
Groff, Lauren
(1978- ) US anthologist and author, active from around 2005, most of whose work is nonfantastic, though the consumerist America that traps her protagonists seems hellbound into Ecological suicide; her tales often therefore seem to register (if only tacitly) a pressure of unease awaiting us at the crossroads into the next day, which may no longer be mundane. Her second novel, Arcadia (2012), does in fact devolve into a full sf ...
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 ...