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Allatini, Rose Laure
(1890-1980) Austrian-born author, in UK from 1911 or earlier, who also published as by Eunice Buckley, A T Fitzroy, Mrs Cyril Scott and Lucian Wainwright. Though her identity was not revealed at this point, she gained some vicarious notoriety for her novel Despised and Rejected (1918) as by A T Fitzroy, which was successfully prosecuted for its sympathetic presentation of a homosexual conscientious objector in World War One, a totally ...
Jordan, Hillary
(1963- ) US author whose second novel, When She Woke (2011), is set in a Near Future America where church and state are no longer separate, and a fundamentalist Dystopia has been established according to whose diktats women are scapegoated and treated as breeders. The homage to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850) – on being ...
Destination Space
Tv film (1959). Paramount. Directed by Joseph Pevney. Produced Alford (Rip) Van Ronkel. Cast includes John Agar, Charles Aidman, Whitney Blake, Cecil Kellaway, Gail Kobe, Edward Platt and Harry Townes. Written by Van Ronkel. 51 minutes. Black and white. / An attempt is being made to launch a mission to the Moon from Earth's Space Station, which has been nicknamed "Benedict's Billions" in ...
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Film (1985). Kennedy Miller Productions. Directed by George Miller with George Ogilvie. Written by Terry Hayes, Miller. Cast includes Helen Buday, Mel Gibson, Paul Larsson, Bruce Spence, Frank Thring and Tina Turner. 107 minutes. Colour. / This Australian film, the second sequel to the Post-Holocaust movie Mad Max (1979), has lots of well-directed action but is more rambling and ...
Iron Maiden
English heavy metal band formed in 1975 by bassist Stephen Harris (1956- ) and characterized by very loud, fast guitar work and the banshee vocals of lead singer Bruce Dickinson (1958- ). The band select promiscuously from established texts as premises for their songs, adapting many novels and (especially) films from war-story, mystery, historical, noir and sf genres. The latter, often inflected via a persistent interest in Satanism and occult ...
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 ...