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Magrs, Paul
(1969- ) UK academic. Radio playwright and author, some of whose early nonseries fiction is nonfantastic, though To the Devil – a Diva! (2004) is about a horror film star, ageless through a Pact with the Devil [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], who threatens chaos when she re-ignites her career in a transgressive soap opera. Of more direct sf ...
Page, Jake
Working name of US author James Keena Page Jr (1936-2016), most of whose work is nonfiction, with a focus on the natural history of Western America and on Native American culture. His fiction consists mostly of mysteries set in Western venues. Of sf interest is Operation: Shatterhand (1996), an Alternate History set in a World War Two in which Germans invade the American West (see ...
Get Smart!
1. US tv series (1965-1970). Talent Associates for NBC-TV until 1969; CBS Television for CBS-TV 1969-1970. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry. Directors included Bruce Bilson, Earl Bellamy, James Komack, Don Adams, Gary Nelson. Writers included Barry Blitzer, Joseph Cavella, Gerald Gardner, Adams, Mike Marmer, Leonard Stern, Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan and Lloyd Turner. Cast includes Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Richard Gautier, Robert Karvelas, ...
Robinson, Nigel
(? - ) UK author best known for various Ties to the Doctor Who universe, beginning with Doctor Who: The Sensorites (1987) and others, later adding two Doctor Who New Adventures: Timewyrm: Apocalypse (1991) and Birthright (1993). Nonfiction quiz books attached to the series are not listed below. He is also responsible a series of ties to the ...
Kaiser, Henry
(1952- ) US guitarist, a prolific and important figure in improvised music, with a longstanding interest in sf and fantasy. Daniel M Pinkwater provided the text of the title track of The Devil in the Drain (1987), read by Kaiser. Crazy Backwards Alphabet (1987) is a collaboration with cartoonist and Simpsons creator Matt Groening. The Wolf at the Door (2025) ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...