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Moore, Harris
Joint pseudonym of Alfred Harris (1928-1998), a Canadian crime author and screenwriter often credited as Alf Harris [see Internet Movie Database under links below], and Arthur Moore (1906-1977), whose nationality has not been established. Together they wrote two novels of moderate interest: Slater's Planet (1971), in which a Spaceship looks for and finds Alien life on a world ruled by ...
Dann, Sam
(1918-2004) US teacher, scriptwriter – among many other assignments, he wrote 311 episodes for the CBS Radio Mystery Theater between 1974 and 1982 – and author whose second novel, The Third Body (1979), depicts a Dystopian twenty-fourth-century world shaped by conflict between men and women. [JC]
Adam, Pip
(? - ) New Zealand author, active from 2005 or earlier. Her first novel, the Near Future I'm Working on a Building (2013), revolves around the physical and metaphysical implications of the construction of an immense, patently phallic tower; the cowers. In her third novel, Nothing to See (2020), control over human Perceptions, as exercised through modern surveillance ...
Marvel Tales
1. US Semiprozine (the first 3 issues small-Digest-size, #4 digest-size and #5 letter-size), five issues May 1934 to Summer 1935. Published by Fantasy Publications, Everett, Pennsylvania; edited by William L Crawford, who was not only the publisher but also set the type himself. Some issues were distributed with several different covers. Distribution was very limited; Marvel Tales ...
Powlik, James
(? - ) Canadian oceanographer and author, whose first novel, Sea Change (1999), sees the oceans threatened by mutated micro-organisms (see Horror in SF; Mutants); second tale dealing with the threatened oceans of the world, Meltdown (2000), is a Technothriller in which a source of deadly radiation under the Arctic may bring about ...
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 ...