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Conway, Gerard F
(1952-2026) US author informally known as Gerry Conway who began his career in Comics, writing some non-fantastic scripts for Marvel Comics, and editing the short-lived 1973 weird fiction magazine The Haunt of Horror and writing for the 1973-1975 anthology Comic Worlds Unknown. He also worked extensively for ...
Fahrenheit
Polish Online Magazine (1997-current). Founded and first edited by Andrzej Ziemiański and Eugeniusz Dębski, Fahrenheit – named as a tribute to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953) – is generally recognized as the oldest Polish online Fanzine devoted to ...
Where Have All the People Gone?
Made-for-tv film (1974). Metromedia/NBC. Directed by John L Moxey. Teleplay by Lewis John Carlino, Sandor Stern, from a story by Carlino. Cast includes Verna Bloom, Peter Graves, George O'Hanlon Jr, Kathleen Quinlan and Ken Sanson. 72 minutes. Colour. / During a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, Steven Anders (Graves) and his teenage children Deborah (Quinlan) and David (O'Hanlon Jr) are exploring a cave ...
Doten, Mark
(1978- ) US editor and author in whose first novel, The Infernal (2015), a feral child suffering burns is found in the ruins of contemporary Iraq. His American captors plug him into an interrogation device known as a Memex which is "guaranteed " to extract truth from its subjects, and he begins to speak in tongues, channelling various figures from Osama bin Laden to Mark Zuckerberg. The tale avoids any thin-concept understanding in terms of ...
Lieberman, Herbert
(1933-2023) US editor, journalist and author of several novels, most of which engage in scenarios involving flight and literal or metaphorical incarceration, but only one of which, Sandman, Sleep (1993), is sf. In the moderately distant Near Future, on a congested but psychically remote Island, a Mad Scientist father-figure conducts experiments in ...
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 ...