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St John, J Allen
Working name of American artist James Allen St John (1872-1957). After a peripatetic upbringing with wealthy parents, St John settled in New York in 1891, received artistic training with the Art Students League, began painting portraits and landscapes for prominent figures in New York society, and briefly taught at the New York School of Art. In 1904 he relocated to his hometown of Chicago, wrote and illustrated one book, The Face in the Pool: A Faerie Tale (1905), and was soon ...
Exo-Man
US made-for-tv film (1977). Universal Television. Produced by Richard Irving and Lionel E Siegel. Written by Howard Rodman (credited as Henri Simon) and Siegel from an original story by Martin Caidin. Cast includes David Ackroyd, José Ferrer (Kermit Haas), A Martinez, Kevin McCarthy, Harry Morgan and Anne Schedeen (Emily Frost). 95 minutes. Colour. / College physics professor Nicholas Conrad (Ackroyd) is shot by mobsters during a hold-up which ...
Colburn, Frona Eunice Wait
(1859-1946) US author of Yermah the Dorado (1897 as by Frona Eunice Wait; rev vt Yermah the Dorado: The Story of a Lost Race 1913 under her full name), which is set in the ninth millennium BCE, at a time when the Aryan empire of Atlantis governs a Utopia on the site of what will eventually become San Francisco; it is not technically a Lost Race tale. The congested plot, much ...
Perry, Steve
(1947- ) US author, father of Dal Perry [see Checklist below for collaborations] and S D Perry. He began publishing sf with "With Clean Hands" as by Jesse Peel in Galaxy for December 1977/January 1978; his first novel, The Tularemia Gambit (1981), combines sf with elements of the hardboiled detective genre. After two Ties for the Time Machine sequence produced by the ...
Salisbury, William
(1877-1942) US author of two novels of sf interest. The American Emperor (1913) is a Dystopia in which an American speculator destroys all opposition to his ambitions, and becomes Emperor of America. In his Satire, The Squareheads: The Story of a Socialized State: A Futuristic Novel (1929), a pilot, losing conscious during a stunt, enters Suspended Animation, awakening ...
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 ...