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Panico en el Transiberiano
Film (1972; vt Horror Express; vt Panic on the Trans-Siberian Express). Granada/Benmar. Directed by Eugenio Martin. Written by Arnaud d'Usseau, Julian Halevey. Cast includes Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Telly Savalas. 90 minutes, cut to 88 minutes. Colour. / In this Spanish/UK coproduction the year is 1906. The body of an apparent "missing link", dug up in China by an anthropologist (Lee), comes to life on the Trans-Siberian Express and turns out to be an ...
Snyder, Gene
(1943- ) US academic and author; with William Jon Watkins (whom see for details), he published two sf novels, Ecodeath (1972) as E V Snyder and The Litany of Sh'reev (1976). His solo works include Mind War (1980), The Ogden Enigma (1980) – in which the US military must deal with the fact that it has repressed all evidence that a UFO landed ...
Marshall, Helen
(1983- ) Canadian academic, author and poet, in UK from 2014, more recently in Australia; partner of Vince Haig (who writes as Malcolm Devlin) since 2015. She began to publish poetry around 2004, and published her first work of genre interest with "Skin" in Future Lovecraft (anth 2011) edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R Stiles. Most of her work – much of which has been ...
Hickam, Homer H, Jr
(1943- ) US engineer for NASA and author, whose memoir/novel, Rocket Boys: A Memoir (1998; vt October Sky 1999), filmed as October Sky (1999), intensely and movingly captures the longing for space felt by young Americans (not always male), a longing composed in part of frustrated knowledge (Germany had already developed the V2) and in part through the expansionist dreams advocated in sf journals like ...
Ryan, Alan
(1943-2011) US author, principally of Horror, and anthology editor who began to publish work of genre interest with "Dragon Story" in Chrysalis 2 (anth 1978) edited by Roy Torgeson. His anthologies include the Religion-themed Perpetual Light (anth 1982), Night Visions 1 (anth 1984) – inaugurating the Night Visions sequence continued by other ...
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 ...