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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Lifeforce
Film (1985). Cannon. Directed by Tobe Hooper. Written by Dan O'Bannon, Don Jakoby, based on The Space Vampires (1976) by Colin Wilson. Cast includes Frank Finlay, Peter Firth, Mathilda May, Steve Railsback and Patrick Stewart. 101 minutes. Colour. / Astronauts exploring Halley's Comet discover three humanoid Alien bodies in suspended animation in crystal containers in a derelict ...
Patrick, Cat
(? - ) US author whose novels use sf topoi, some of them Clichés, to activate romance plots for Young Adult readers: in Forgotten (2011) it is a daily Memory Edit which imposes an effect state of Amnesia on its young protagonist; in Revived (2012) an experimental Drug ...
Pan Huiting
(? - ) Singapore artist and author, active in the first capacity from around 2005. In her sf novel, Red Dust, White Snow (2023), which initially seems to channel American Genre SF Satires from the 1960s, an unnamed office worker is given a device or engine which, when turned on, takes her into a Parallel World. As the dream-like world she encounters ...
Goldbarth, Albert
(1948- ) US academic, collector of 1950s space toys and poet who remains outside the loose grouping of poets (see Poetry) that has dominated American sf poetry for many years; he has not, for instance, ever won a Rhysling Award, though he has received some more general recognitions, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Book Critics Circle award twice. His one novel, Pieces of Payne ...
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 ...