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Edwards, James
(? -? ) US author of John Bull, Uncle Sam and Johnny Crapaud (1884), a Lost World tale set in East Africa, where survivors of a shipwreck stumble into an unknown land once inhabited by a race now entirely vanished, and now occupied by Americans from Virginia, who have established a Utopia there. Edwards may have been a professor at a college which has not been identified. [JC]
DeSoto, Rafael
(1904-1992) Puerto Rican-born US artist, whose name was variously rendered as Raphael De Soto, Rafael M de Soto, and R de Soto; he may have produced a few pulp covers under the name Irene Endris. After the death of his father, DeSoto was sent to a Catholic seminary, but his obvious artistic talents directed him toward a career in art rather than the priesthood. In about 1923 he came to New York and spent some years getting what experience he could in various studios before, in 1930, signing up ...
Target Earth!
Film (1954). Abtcon Pictures/Allied Artists. Directed by Sherman A Rose. Written by William Raynor, based on "Deadly City" (March 1953 If) by Paul W Fairman (as Ivar Jorgensen). Cast includes Kathleen Crowley, Richard Denning, Virginia Grey and Richard Reeves. 75 minutes. Black and white. / In this film, whose low budget is reflected in its appearance, ...
Ecklar, Julia
(1964- ) US songwriter, Filk-singer and author, initially best known for a vinyl album, Divine Intervention (1986), which she wrote and performed. She began writing work of genre interest with "The Music Box" in Analog for September 1989, and soon published the first of her Star Trek Ties, Star Trek: The Kobayashi Maru (1989). Her ...
Hansen, Karl
(1950- ) US author who began publishing sf with "The Killers" (September 1975 Analog) and "A Red, White and Blue Fourth of July" in 2076: The American Tricentennial (anth 1976) edited by Edward Bryant, and who published stories fairly frequently in the late 1970s and 1980s. His first novel, War Games (as "Sergeant Pepper" in ...
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 ...