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Agent for H.A.R.M.
Film (1966). Dimension VI/Universal Pictures. Produced by Edward F Abrams and Joseph Robertson. Directed by Gerd Oswald. Written by Blair Robertson based on his original concept. Cast includes Barbara Bouchet, Wendell Corey, Carl Esmond, Martin Kosleck and Peter Mark Richman. 84 minutes. Colour. / US special agent Adam Chance (Richman) is employed by H.A.R.M. (for Human Aetiological Relations Machine), an espionage agency led by Jim Graff (Corey). He is assigned to protect Professor ...
Vajra, Rajnar
Working name of David Rajnar Vajra-Loeb (1947-2023), US singer-songwriter, music tutor and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Passing the Arboli Test" in Absolute Magnitude for Spring 1997; much of his short work, and his first two full-length tales, appeared in Analog. His debut novel, "Shootout at the Nokai Corral" (February-May 2003 Analog), is a ...
Wipeout
Videogame (1995). Psygnosis. Designed by Nick Burcombe. Platforms: DOS, PS1, Win (1995); Saturn (1996). / Wipeout is a racing game (see Videogames) set in the mid-twenty-first century, in which players compete for first place using Antigravity vehicles in tightly enclosed tracks. The gameplay is often frenetic, combining strikingly rapid movement through a variety of ...
VanderMeer, Jeff
(1968- ) US editor and author, married to Ann VanderMeer, who began to publish work of genre interest, after at least one story published in college, with "So the Dead Walk Slowly" in Fear for November 1989, and who is probably best known for the Ambergris sequence of novels and tales, which begins with two novellas, Dradin, in Love: A Tale of Elsewhen & Otherwhere (1996 chap) and ...
Cinemagic
Letter-size saddle-stapled special effects Cinema magazine. Originally a Fanzine issued by Don Dohler (1946-2006) for 11 photocopied issues from 1972 to 1979. Relaunched in 1979 by O'Quinn Publications. Edited by Dohler and others. 36 issues from 1979 to 1987; the publication schedule was roughly quarterly. / This was the first US magazine to offer instructions on how to create special effects for amateur films. It began as a ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...