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Sarrantonio, Al
(1952-2025) US editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ahead of the Joneses" in Asimov's for March 1979. Much of his work was horror, sometimes tinged with sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Worms (1985), a Gothic tale set in Massachusetts with hints of H P Lovecraft; and the Equipoisal Moonbane ...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Film (1991). Lightstorm/Carolco/Tri-Star. Produced, directed and written by James Cameron. Executive producers Mario Kassar, Gale Anne Hurd. Cast includes Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Joe Morton, Robert Patrick and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Written by Cameron, William Wisher. 135 minutes. Colour. / A decade after The Terminator (1984), two more Terminators ...
Welsh, Louise
(1965- ) UK author whose six novels to date range across several genres, from detections to historicals, none of the first five with fantastic content; of sf interest is The Plague Times Trilogy beginning with A Lovely Way to Burn (2014). Disaster in the form of an extremely deadly Pandemic known as the Sweats strikes very-Near Future ...
Adams, Jack
Collaborative pseudonym of US authors Tilghman Answorth Howard Lowe (1850-1894) and Mary Amanda Lowe (1856-1902). It may be that Mary Lowe's main involvement in their sf novel, Nequa, or The Problem of the Ages (1900; with additional nonfiction 2015), was her gaining publication for it after her husband's death. However, the copyright notice in the first edition lists only A O Grigsby and Mary P Lowe; Grigsby was the publisher of the newspaper Equity, jointedly ...
James, Rowland
(1885-? ) UK author of a Future War novel, While England Slept (1932), featuring the relatively benign Invasion of the UK with the aid of a rejuvenating gas which causes Amnesia but does not kill; as they cannot remember how Machines work, the population vacates Cities and settles in Pastoral ...
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 ...