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Briggs, Ian
(? - ) UK scriptwriter and actor who wrote two Television serials for the Doctor Who universe, each featuring the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy: "Dragonfire" (23 November 1987 to 7 December 1987), which he novelized as Doctor Who: Dragonfire (1989); and "The Curse of Fenric" (25 October 1989 to 15 November 1989), which he novelized as Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric ...
Johnston, Aaron
(? - ) US screenwriter, playwright and author, whose work in the latter capacity has been as a collaborator with Orson Scott Card in various recent works, including a Technothriller, Invasive Procedures (2007), and a new prequel series in the Ender universe, the Ender: First Formic War sequence, beginning with ...
Brown, George Mackay
(1921-1996) Scottish poet, playwright, journalist and author, active from the mid-1940s with The Orkney Herald and other local papers, where his casual-seeming but intensely felt essays on the history and fate of the Orkneys appeared until his death. With his first volumes of poems, The Storm, and Other Poems (coll 1954 chap) and Loaves and Fishes (coll 1959 chap) he began to establish himself as a poet of very considerable stature; he remains best known for ...
Genesis II
Made-for-tv film (1973). CBS-TV. Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey. Written by Gene Roddenberry. Cast includes Ted Cassidy, Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley and Percy Rodriguez. 90 minutes. Colour. / Produced by Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, this was a pilot for a television series that was never made. After a Suspended-Animation experiment goes wrong, a scientist wakes in ...
Earth: Final Conflict
American-Canadian tv series (1997-2002). Alliance Atlantis Communications and Tribune Entertainment. Created by Gene Roddenberry. Producers include Majel Barett Roddenberry, Paul Gertz, David Kirschner, and Seaton McLean. Writers include Gertz, John Whelpley, George Geiger, and D C Fontana. Directors include Brenton Spencer, Andrew Potter, Ross Clyde, and Vincenzo Natali. Cast ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. His first professional publication was the long sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" (Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959] Triquarterly), though he only began publishing sf reviews in 1964 and sf proper with "A Man Must Die" in New Worlds for ...