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Perry, Elaine
(1959- ) US author of a Near Future sf novel, Another Present Era (1990), set in an Entropic New York just as the lights go out, leaving the female protagonist alone (see Horror in SF) in an abandoned skyscraper as the rising waters, generated by global warming (see Climate Change), begin to engulf her ...
Timeslip [film]
Film (1956; vt The Atomic Man US). Merton Park/Allied Artists. Directed by Ken Hughes. Written by Charles Eric Maine. Cast includes Peter Arne, Faith Domergue, Gene Nelson and Vic Perry. 93 minutes, cut to 76 minutes US. Black and white. / Undistinguished UK thriller whose sf concept is that an atomic scientist, who temporarily died for 7½ seconds on the operating table while a bullet was being dug out of his back, now lives ...
Pinkwater, Daniel M
(1941- ) US author whose many stories for children and Young Adult readers from 1970 have as well attracted large adult audiences for their surreal wit, their supple and astringent wisdom and (for sf readers in particular) the wry hilarity of their use of sf venues and themes. After several non-genre works as Manus Pinkwater (a form of his name which appears only in books of the 1970s), he began writing tales of genre interest with ...
Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (1965- ) Icelandic singer and composer, widely celebrated for her idiosyncratic vocal style and a left-field eccentricity of musical focus that often shades into sf; she has worked on occasion with the singer-songwriter and author Sjón between 1995 and 2011. "Human Behaviour", her first hit (from Debut, 1993) takes the position of a ...
Brain from Planet Arous, The
Film (1957). Marquette Productions Ltd/Howco International. Produced by Jacques R Marquette. Directed by Nathan H Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz). Written by Ray Buffum. Cast includes John Agar, Joyce Meadows and Dale Tate. 71 minutes. Black and white. / Young Scientist Steve March (Agar) is about to marry Sally (Meadows) when the criminal Alien brain Gor (voiced by Tate) arrives on Earth, and takes possession of Steve's ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...