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Goldin, Stephen
(1947- ) US author, married to Kathleen Sky 1972-1982, and to Mary Mason from 1987. He began publishing sf with "The Girls on USSF 193" in If for December 1965 and was runner-up for a Nebula for Best Short Story with "The Last Ghost" (in Protostars, anth 1971, ed David Gerrold & Stephen Goldin). After ...
Time Opera
A potentially useful item of Terminology which has yet to be generally adopted. It seems to have been coined by Anthony Boucher in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, first as a description of Jack Williamson's The Legion of Time (May-July 1938 Astounding; rev 1952) in "Recommended Reading" (April 1953 ...
Split Second
Film (1991). Challenge. Directed by Tony Maylam, Ian Sharp. Written by Gary Scott Thompson. Cast includes Alun Armstrong, Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan, Ian Dury, Rutger Hauer, Michael J Pollard and Pete Postlethwaite. 91 minutes. Colour. / London, 2008 CE. The Thames has risen and society is crumbling. Coffee-drinking hard man Hauer and comics-reading Scots intellectual Duncan are brawling buddy cops on the trail of a heart-eating villain who carves ...
Cristofari, Cécile
(? - ) French teacher and author, active from 2010 or before, who began to publish work of genre interest in English with "Memories Like Bread, Words Like Little White Stones" in Daily Science Fiction for July 2013. Much of her short fiction, some of it set in Near Future France, has been assembled as Elephants in Bloom (coll 2024); the ...
Gwinn, D Howard
(1857-1938) US author of whom nothing is known beyond his sf novel, The Gold of Ophir (1898), whose protagonists find the entrance to an Underground Lost World, and are able to determine that the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel settled there, and were the progenitors of the later Aztecs. [JC]
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 ...