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Indestructible Man
Film (1956). C G K Productions/Allied Artists Pictures. Produced and directed by Jack Pollexfen. Written by Vy Russell and Sue Dwiggins (credited as Sue Bradford). Cast includes Marian Carr, Lon Chaney Jr, Ross Elliott, Stuart Randall, Robert Shayne and Max Showalter (credited as Casey Adams). Narrator: Casey Adams. 72 minutes. Black and white. / Career criminal Charles "Butcher" Benton (Chaney) is double-crossed by his three partners in an armoured-car heist, and sent to the ...
Medicine
Medical applications of Technology comprise one of the few areas where the cutting edge of scientific research impinges directly and intimately upon ordinary human life. New medicines are so rapidly brought into everyday use that it is easy to forget how rapid progress has been, and that barely 100 years separates us from the crucial Conceptual Breakthroughs associated with the development of organic chemistry and the ...
Wood, Samuel Andrew
(1887-1966) UK journalist and prolific author, mostly of thrillers (some as by Robin Temple), active in the Magazines from about 1911; he wrote four works of some interest, three of them Lost Race tales: The Isle of Forgotten People (1925) as by Thompson Cross, an unusually violent example of this subgenre set in a radium-rich ring of extinct volcanoes in China; Winged Heels (1927), in which a quest for a ...
Amazing Engine
Role Playing Game (1993). Tactical Studies Rules (TSR). Designed by David Cook. / One of a range of generic role playing systems intended to compete with GURPS (1986), Amazing Engine had a simple set of core rules, with more detailed setting specific mechanics included in the various worldbooks. The system allowed players to transform a character designed for one setting into an analogous persona ...
Carlton, Clark Thomas
(? - ) US singer/songwriter, playwright, screenwriter and author who is of sf interest for the Antasy sequence of Science Fantasy novels beginning with Prophets of the Ghost Ants (2011; rev 2017), set in a Far Future Planetary-Romance version of Earth called Dranveria, where homo sapiens has suffered ...
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 (1966-1967), and later in ...