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Lost Planet Airmen
US film (1951). Republic Pictures. Directed by Fred C. Brannon. Written by Royal K Cole and William Lively. Cast includes Mae Clarke, Tristram Coffin, James Craven, I. Stanford Jolley and House Peters, Jr. 65 minutes. Black and white. This was an abridged version of the 12-part (167 minutes in total) Republic Pictures Serial Film King of the Rocket Men (1949), though slightly reworked (see below). / Reporter Glenda Thomas (Clarke) is ...
Desamours, Channelle
(? - ) US teacher and author; the protagonist of her first novel, the Young Adult Needy Little Things (2025), is a Black teenager immersed in the complexities of life in Atlanta, where she discovers herself to possess a Psi Power combining Telepathy (she can hear others' unspoken needs) and Precognition (what they ...
Levy, David
(1913-2000) US film executive and author in whose The Gods of Foxcroft (1970) the protagonist awakes from Suspended Animation to find the world of 500 years hence suffering under circumstances disastrous to the world's Ecology, forcing humans into cramped habitats; meanwhile, Aliens are observing us from space. [JC]
Jakobson, Lars
(1959- ) Swedish librarian and author. An sf enthusiast since childhood, Lars Jakobson wrote his examination thesis at the Swedish Librarian college on sf published in Sweden 1953-1976. His work is founded on a wide reading and deep affection for classical sf, but at the same time also in his fascination with modernist literary techniques (see Modernism in SF) and in transhumanist philosophy. His first ...
SFWA Grand Master Award
A lifetime achievement Award presented to living authors (only) by the Nebula Committee of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, as part of the annual Nebula Awards presentation for work appearing in the previous year. The Grand Master Award was inaugurated in 1975, when the first presentation was made to Robert A Heinlein. In theory this honour is awarded only 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 ...