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Longyear, Barry B
(1942-2025) US author and editor who ran a printing company with his wife before beginning to write in 1977, beginning to publish work of genre interest with "The Tryouts" in Asimov's for November/December 1978. Before his 1981 hospitalization for alcoholism and addiction to prescription drugs – an experience which formed the basis of his non-sf novel Saint Mary Blue (1988) – he had already published prolifically, sometimes as by Frederick ...
Scott, J M
(1906-1986) UK author of The Silver Land (1937), a Lost Race tale set in an arctic Hebridean Island, where an ancient civilization of "Eskimos" is discovered. J M Scott [James Maurice Scott] should not be confused with J M Scott [Jean M Scott], co-author with Robert Theobald of Teg's 1994 (1972). [JC]
2 + 5: Missione Hydra
Film (1966; vt Star Pilot). Golden Motion Pictures. Directed by Pietro Francisci. Written by Pietro Francisci, based on a story by Fernando Paolo Girolami. English screenplay by Ian Danby. Cast includes Nando Angelini, Giovanni de Angelis, Roland Lesaffre, Leontine May, Kirk Morris, Mario Novelli and Leonora Ruffo. 89 minutes. Colour. / A Spaceship from the constellation Hydra crashes in Sardinia and is buried for two years, forcing its ...
Bingham, Frederick
(? -? ) UK dramatist and author, whose The Cap Becomes a Coronet: A Downstairs Romance. A.D. 19— (1894 chap) lightly spoofs social customs of the Near Future. [JC]
Mohan, Steven, Jr
(1967-2024) US author who after graduating from Northwestern University and the University of Phoenix served as a US Navy officer for four years. He began to publish work of genre interest with "Conservator" in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XIV (anth 1998) edited by Dave Wolverton. His main focus was on Military SF, chiefly in association with the BattleTech ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...