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Macleod, Joseph
(1903-1984) UK barrister, poet, broadcaster and author, active from before 1930; much of his poetry was published as by Adam Drinan. His sf Satire, Overture to Cambridge: A Satirical Story (1936), is based on his own unpublished play staged at the Cambridge Festival Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, in 1933. Couched as a Scientific Romance, the tale eschews the Modernist bent ...
Murray, Jacqueline
(? - ) UK author of Daughter of Atlantis (1958), describing the life of the daughter of the ruler of Atlantis; she is a Telepath and a healer, and performs good deeds ceaselessly; but soon the time will come when, burdened by the sins of its populace, the Island will sink. [JC]
Bridgman-Metchim, D
(? -? ) UK author who wrote poetry, including Wild West Poems (coll 1892) as B Metchim. Atlantis: The Book of the Angels (1900), a tale not perhaps consciously Equipoisal in a contemporary sense, but noted for its flamboyant intermixing fantasy, including the eponymous angels, and sf. The setting is Atlantis, threatened on all sides by Monsters ...
Mothership Zeta
US quarterly Online Magazine produced by Escape Artists, Inc. and edited by Mur Lafferty. It is a companion to the podzines Escape Pod, Pseudopod and Podcastle. After a small trial issue in September 2015, it appeared for six issues from October 2015 to January 2017 before it ran into financial difficulties. / Its emphasis was on fiction that was fun and did not take itself too seriously. That was ...
Phantom Planet, The
Film (1961). Four Crown Productions. Directed by William Marshall. Written by Fred De Gorter, Fred Gebhardt (see Robert A Wise), William Telaak, William Marshall, based on a story by Gebhardt. Cast includes Francis X Bushman, Anthony Dexter, Loretta Faith, Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Richard Kiel and Richard Weber. 82 minutes. Black and white. / Spaceships on routine missions are being destroyed by a mysterious ...
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 ...