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Stacpoole, William Henry
(1846-1914) UK lawyer and author, elder brother of H De Vere Stacpoole. In his sf novel, Herr Richter's Strange Experiment (1888), the eponymous Scientist applies his Invention – an Identity Exchange device – to the solution of a murder mystery involving identical twins. "The Teleporon" (March 1886 Longman's Magazine) ...
Colvin, James
House Name used primarily by Michael Moorcock for book reviews and stories in New Worlds, and for one independent collection of stories: The Deep Fix (coll 1966), which led to the band name Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix. The name was occasionally used by other contributors for book reviews. Eventually Moorcock reported ...
Space: 1999
UK tv series (1975-1977). A Gerry Anderson Production for ITC. Created Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Producers Sylvia Anderson (season 1), Fred Freiberger (season 2). Executive producer Gerry Anderson. Story consultant Christopher Penfold. Special effects Brian Johnson. Two seasons, 48 50-minute episodes in all. Colour. / This UK-made series, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson – who had previously produced a ...
DiLouie, Craig
(1967- ) US author who has concentrated for most of his career on horror and fantasy, beginning with Paranoia (2001), a supernatural thriller involving paranormal powers, the Illuminati, and the predicted assassination of an American president. Interspersed with material of this not unusual sort and of not remarkable calibre are tales of sf interest, the first of these being The Thin White Line: A History of the 2012 Avian Flu Pandemic in Canada ...
Underwood, Edna W
(1873-1961) US translator, poet and author, of sf interest primarily for some of the tales assembled as A Book of Dear Dead Women (coll 1911; exp vt Dear Dead Woman: The Weird Stories of Edna W Underwood 2010). In "The Painter of Dead Women" (January 1910 The Hot Set), a painter uses mesmerism (see Hypnosis) to put beautiful women who fit the needs of his Art into ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...