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Marr, John S
(1940- ) US doctor, epidemiologist and author whose official positions have included Director of the New York City Bureau of Communicable Diseases and State Epidemiologist of Virginia (retired 2006). His medical expertise fuelled the Disaster thriller The Black Death (1977) with Gwyneth Cravens, centred on an outbreak of pneumonic plague in New York, and the race ...
Storey, Anthony
(1928- ) UK author – born Anthony Story, although he and other family members mostly used the alternative spelling Storey – formerly a rugby player, and brother of the playwright and novelist David Storey (1933-2017). His Satire-drenched Messiah trilogy – comprising The Rector (1970), The Centre Holds (1973) and The Saviour (1978) – deals with the traumas surrounding the ...
Series
Although book series were not given separate headwords in past editions of this encyclopedia (if only for space reasons), a number of brief examples have been added to this third online edition. This is partly for the sake of internal search engine efficiency. The online Search feature gives priority to terms appearing in headwords, so a search for "Lensman" would formerly report the relevant game as top result, with E E Smith himself some places down the list; ...
Ender's Game
US film (2013). Summit Entertainment/OddLot Entertainment/Chartoff Productions. Directed by Gavin Hood. Written by Gavin Hood, based on the novel Ender's Game (August 1977 Analog; much exp 1985) by Orson Scott Card. Cast includes Nonso Anozie, Moisés Arias, Abigail Breslin, Asa Butterfield, Viola Davis, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and Hailee Steinfeld. 114 minutes. Colour. / Closely following the ...
Goldsmith, Howard
(1943- ) US research psychologist and author, mostly for younger readers, whose fiction includes The Whispering Sea (1976); The Shadow, and Other Strange Tales (coll 1977 chap) and Terror by Night, and Other Strange Tales (coll 1977), both was designed for "reluctant readers"; and Invasion: 2200 A.D. (1979). With Roger Elwood he produced the anthology ...
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 ...