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Television
The first section of this entry is roughly as it appeared in the 1993 second edition of the encyclopedia, with some added links to new third-edition entries for television sf within its scope. The second section, taking up the tale from the 1990s, offers a contrasting view. The third section briefly covers animated series. / 1. The first thing to understand about televised sf is that it has never been commercially successful (relative to the top programmes) on US television, ...
Aandahl, Vance
(1942- ) US teacher and author who began to publish short stories with "It's a Great Big Wonderful Universe" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for November 1960, and who remained active as an author of short fiction until the mid-1990s, publishing at least 30 tales over that period, most of them for F&SF. His work is noted for its wry ingenuity, and several stories have been anthologized. No ...
Invasion [film]
Film (1966). Merton Park, American International Pictures. Directed by Alan Bridges. Written by Roger Marshall, based on an original story by Robert Holmes. Cast includes Lyndon Brook, Valerie Gearon, Edward Judd and Yōko Tani. 82 minutes. Black and white. / This interesting UK film tells of two humanoid Aliens of East Asian appearance whose Spaceship crash-lands on ...
Jones, K C
(? - ) US screenwriter and author whose first novel, Black Tide (2022), treats Near Future First Contact in terms of Horror in SF, as seen via two protagonists who, after a one-night stand, must face an apocalyptic new world, with strong hints of the end of civilization as Homo sapiens has claimed to know it (see ...
Onley, David C
(1950- ) Canadian television reporter (designated Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario in July 2007) whose sf novel is the Technothriller Shuttle: A Shattering Novel of Disaster in Space (1981), dealing with attempts to rescue the crew of a seriously damaged space shuttle in orbit. This concept seemed more science-fictional in 1981 than now. [DRL]
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 ...