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Journey to the Unknown
UK tv series (1968-1969). Production companies Hammer Films, 20th Century Fox. Executive producers Joan Harrison and Norman Lloyd. Produced by Anthony Hinds. Directors include Roy Ward Baker, Don Chaffey, Alan Gibson, Peter Sasdy and Robert Stevens. Writers include Michael J Bird, Robert Bloch, Julian Bond, Oscar Millard and Anthony Skene (1924-2000). Cast includes Barbara Bel Geddes, Michael Callan, Joseph Cotton, Patty Duke, Vera Miles, Stephanie ...
Ross, Raymond J
(? - ) UK author of One Hundred Miles Above Earth (1981), a Near Future space adventure for Robert Hale Limited. [JC]
Lawlor, Harold
(1910-1992) Irish-born US author of some 35 short stories 1942-1953, his debut being "The Eternal Priestess" (April 1942 Fantastic Adventures). He wrote most often for Weird Tales, where "Mayaya's Little Green Men" (November 1946 Weird Tales) is of interest as an early genre-fiction use of the phrase Little Green Men (which see) in a story title; this ...
Uesu Tetsuto
(? - ) Writing name of a Japanese author of Light Novels, whose most prominent works have bloated into serial fixups across other media, particularly Manga and Anime, with underlying themes arguably ill-suited to their low-brow venues. His first work, Kanojo wa Megane-HOLIC ["She's a Spectacle-HOLIC"] (2008-2009), exploits the elision in Japanese everyday ...
Deutschman, Deborah
(? - ) US author, poet and screenwriter whose sf novel is Signals (1978), in which UFO attempts to communicate with Earth are thwarted by human governments. [JC]
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star ...