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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 ...
Black Friday
Film (1940; vt Friday the Thirteenth). Universal Pictures. Produced by Burt Kelly. Directed by Arthur Lubin. Written by Curt Siodmak (credited as Kurt Siodmak), Eric Taylor, and Edmund L Hartmann (uncredited). Cast includes Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Stanley Ridges. 70 minutes. Black and white. / Kindly Professor George Kingsley (Ridges) is shot in the head during an ...
Tunney, Stephen
(1959- ) US musician, artist and author; as a musician he performs under the name Dogbowl with the group King Missile, and as an artist he has exhibited since 1991. His first novel, Flan (1992), is a Fantastic Voyage tale set in a vividly visualized burning America (see Holocaust); in his second novel, the Young Adult One Hundred Per Cent Lunar Boy ...
West, D
Working name of UK author, artist and critic Donald West (1945-2015), active in Fandom from the early 1970s, his first publication being Illustrations to J.R.R. Tolkien (graph 1971 chap); his fanzine DAISNAID (Do As I Say Not As I Do) appeared irregularly from 1976 to 1997. He began to publish fiction of genre interest with the sf tale "The Pit" in The Gollancz/Sunday Times Best SF Stories (anth 1975; vt Let's Go to Golgotha ...
Gary, Romain
Primary pseudonym of Lithuanian diplomat, military officer and author Roman Kacew (1914-1980), primarily in France from 1928, a French citizen from 1935. During his life he had presented various versions of his family background, giving (as an example) his surname as Kacewgari and his birthplace as Tiflis, Georgia; it is not known how seriously he mean any of these personal histories. He began to call himself Romain Gary in 1940, just before his World War Two ...
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 ...