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Invisible Boy, The
Film (1957). Pan/MGM. Directed by Herman Hoffman. Written by Cyril Hume, based on "Invisible Boy" (23 June 1956 Saturday Evening Post; vt "The Brain Child" in Tomorrow's Gift, coll 1958) by Edmund Cooper. Cast includes Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster, Richard Eyer and Harold J Stone. 90 minutes. Black and white. / In this well-written and well-made ...
Shainblum, Mark
(1963- ) Canadian author and editor who began to publish work of genre interest with the essay "En remontée après la chute libre" (1990 Solaris #89). His first book-length work was the Alternate-History anthology Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas (anth 1999) edited with John Dupuis. Also of alternate-history interest is the Jewish-themed ...
Hughes, Edward P
(? - ) US author – it has been speculated that he may be Welsh – who began publishing sf with "In the Name of the Father" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for September 1980, the first tale in his Liam McGrath sequence, which was continued in his first novel, The Long Mynd (1985), set in a Post-Holocaust world brought into being by ...
Strieber, Whitley
(1945- ) US author, much better known for horror novels – like The Wolfen (1978) (see Horror in SF; Werewolves) and the Hunger sequence beginning with The Hunger (1981) (see Vampires) – than for his sf, though he has continued to produce the latter intermittently throughout his career, with an emphasis on the ...
de Graffigny, Henry
Working name (taken from his birthplace) of Raoul Henri Clément Auguste Antoine Marquis (1863-1934), French author, journalist, aeronaut and amateur scientist, at one time editor-in-chief of the science magazine La science universelle; he wrote numerous adventure novels and popular-science books whose subjects included automobile and aeroplane Transportation. He briefly pretended to the title Marquis de Graffigny, a ...
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 ...