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High Treason
UK film (1929), subtitled "The Peace Picture". Gaumont British Picture Corp. Directed by Maurice Elvey. Written by L'Estrange Fawcett, based on the play High Treason (first performed 1928; ?1929) by Noel Pemberton-Billing. Cast includes James Carew, Basil Gill, Benita Hume, Raymond Massey, Jameson Thomas and Humberston Wright. 95 minutes, cut to 69 minutes. Black and white. / This forgotten curiosity, one of the earliest UK ...
Kastel, Warren
Ziff-Davis House Name used on magazine stories by Chester S Geier and possibly others 1948-1950, and by Robert Silverberg in 1957. According to Geier, "Kastel" began as a pseudonym which he used for collaborations with his friend William L Hamling. [JC/MA] links / ...
Jules Verne-Magasinet
["The Jules Verne Magazine"] Swedish SF Magazine. First series 16 October 1940 to 28 February 1947, published by AB Nordpress; weekly; 332 issues. Second series May 1969 to June 1971, published and edited by Bertil Falk; quarterly; 10 issues. Third series January 1972 to 2009, published by Askild & Kärnekull 1972, Delta 1973-1983, Sam J Lundwall Fakta & Fantasi 1983-2010; all edited by Sam J Lundwall; quarterly ...
Kaufman, Charlie
(1958- ) US screenwriter, filmmaker and author. An NYU film-school classmate of writer-director Chris Columbus, Kaufman struggled for a decade writing spec scripts for television and occasional pieces for National Lampoon, before eventually landing script work on a series of now little-remembered Television shows through the 1990s; the experience of protracted unsuccess remains an emotional centre of all of his major films. Of his ...
Rikhye, Ravi
(1946- ) Indian author whose The Fourth Round Indo-Pak War (1982) is set in the Near Future, where the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan escalates as the latter country begins to develop a nuclear capacity; outright War soon ensues. [JC]
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 ...