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You Only Live Twice
Film (1967). Eon/United Artists. Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Written by Roald Dahl, based very loosely on You Only Live Twice (1964) by Ian Fleming. Cast includes Sean Connery, Mie Hama, Donald Pleasence, Tetsuro Tamba and Akiko Wakabayashi. 116 minutes. Colour. / Several of Fleming's James Bond novels were Technothrillers, mildly sf-oriented (though set in the ...
Jales, Mark
Pseudonym of Ronald Harry W Jales (1924-1979), UK author who also wrote thrillers as Mark Hayman and Will Palmer. In science fiction he is known only for his contributions to the Robert Hale Limited list of sf adventures, beginning with Prelude to Exodus (1979) [JC/SH]
Cowper, Richard
Pseudonym of UK author John Middleton Murry Jr (1926-2002), son of the famous critic; Cowper also published four non-sf novels under the name Colin Murry, beginning with The Golden Valley (1958); and, as Colin Middleton Murry – Colin being an early nickname, though he was normally addressed as John – two autobiographical volumes, One Hand Clapping (1975; vt I at the Keyhole 1975), which deals mainly with his relationship with his difficult, ...
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Film (1984). Paramount. Directed by Leonard Nimoy. Written by Harve Bennett. Cast includes the lead players from the Star Trek television series, along with Robin Curtis, Merritt Butrick, Christopher Lloyd. 105 minutes. Colour. / This is the third movie in the Star Trek movie series begun with Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and it follows directly on ...
McGill, Robert
(1976- ) Canadian author, active from around 2000. He is of sf interest for his third novel, A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life (2022), set in a Near Future world in which the only cure for an ongoing Pandemic is a process known as flatpacking. A diseased person's body is dehydrated, filled with a poison fluid claimed to be restorative, and the resulting flattened package sent from ...
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 ...