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Alexander, Roger
Pseudonym of Jon William Nagel (1942- ), US author of Glimpses (1995), in which the human race, stored in Computer files, plans to send a representative sample of humanity to the stars; but Antichrist (see Religion) intervenes. [JC]
Anderton, Joanne
(? - ) New Zealand author who also writes as Jo Anderton, and who began to publish work of genre interest with "Trail of Dead" in Zombies (anth 2007) edited by Robert N Stephenson; the tale was assembled, along with a considerable proportion of her short fiction, as The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories (coll 2013). Most of her short work has been fantasy and horror, though her first book ...
Chand Par Chadayee
Indian film (1967; vt Trip to Moon). Cauvery Productions. Directed by T P Sundaram. Dialogue written by Dr Balakishen Mouj (no other writer credited). Cast includes Helen, Anwar Hussain, Padwa Khanna, S Nazir, Bhagwan Palav, Dara Singh Randhara, and G Ratna. 150 minutes. Black and white. / This is apparently India's first Spacesuit Film, though it generally seems like a typical Bollywood production, filled with incongruous musical ...
Retro Hugo
Retrospective Hugo awards may be voted under certain circumstances to fill the perceived gap left by a past World SF Convention at which no Hugos were presented. Besides the voting of the usual Hugos for the previous year's sf, a Worldcon committee may optionally allow its members to choose Retro Hugos which might have been but were not presented at the Worldcon of 50, 75 or 100 years previously ...
Key, David
(? - ) US author of an sf novel, The SEX Machine (1968), in which Sex and Android themes are matched together. [JC]
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 ...