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From the Drain
Film (1967). Produced by David Cronenberg and Stefan Nosko. Directed and written by Cronenberg. Cast comprises Stefan Nosko and Mort Ritts. 14 minutes. Colour. / Two men are in a bathtub. The first (Ritts, who starred in David Cronenberg's first student film, Transfer [1966]) is sat at the plughole-end of the bath and proceeds to ask a series of insinuating and ...
Kohout, Pavel
(1928- ) Czech poet, playwright, author and, since his emigration in 1978, émigré activist; his relations with post-Communist Czech culture have not been easy, and he remains in Vienna. Though his early poetry had been pro-Communist, his politics changed and his work remained unpublished in Czechoslovakia in the period 1968-1989; some was published there in 1990. His sf novel, which deals with the political ...
Boucher, Anthony
Best-known pseudonym of US editor, Radio broadcaster, translator, journalist and author William Anthony Parker White (1911-1968), who began to publish work of genre interest with "Ye Goode Olde Ghost Story" in Weird Tales for January 1927 as by William A P White, though his first full story was "Snulbug" in Unknown for December 1941 as Boucher (for a note on "Snulbug" and related titles see ...
Bloomer, J M
(?1844-1923) US newspaper editor author of D'Mars' Affinity: Romance of Love's Final Test in Time and Tide (1903), a Lost Race tale involving Reincarnation. [JC]
George, W L
(1882-1926) French-born author in UK from early adulthood, in active service during World War One with the French army, prolific from 1911, modestly controversial in various contexts, including Feminism; but a figure whose work (and reputation) never quite jelled. His one novel of sf interest, Children of the Morning (May-December 1926 The Fortnightly Review; 1926), retains some interest for its unmistakable ...
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 ...