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Hagerty, Neil
(1965- ) US musician and occasional author, best known as one half (with his then partner Jennifer Herrema) of the influential alternative rock band Royal Trux. His sole novel to date, Victory Chimp (1997), follows the titular primate across the Multiverse, attempting to free his race from oppression, in a Drug-addled non-linear style seemingly indebted to William S ...
Superman III
Film (1983). Dovemead/Cantharus/Alexander and Ilya Salkind. Directed by Richard Lester. Written by David Newman, Leslie Newman. Cast includes Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annette O'Toole, Richard Pryor, Christopher Reeve, Pamela Stephenson and Robert Vaughn. 125 minutes. Colour. / Sequel to Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980), this is a movie on a more domestic ...
Murray, V T
(1874-1956) UK journalist, playwright and author of an Equipoisal fantasy/Scientific Romance, The Rule of the Beasts (1925), in which a homiletic journal, beginning in 1933 just as a devastating Pandemic initiates among its survivors a terminal World War Two, has been discovered in the fortieth century, when it is presented with scholarly ...
Wood, William
(? - ) UK author whose sf novel The News from Karachi (1962) posits a Near Future world afflicted by a rolling succession of plagues, perhaps triggered by uncontrolled testing of nuclear weapons (see Nuclear Energy; World War Three). Mutant fauna have been to proliferate. The Prime Minister of a pan-European ...
Wonder Woman Film/TV
Only thirty years after its introduction in 1942 did the first media adaptations of Wonder Woman appear with three successive, variously named US tv series (1974-1979) and their pilot films, all technically based on the Comic book created by William Moulton Marston (1893-1947) for DC Comics. The complex Television production history falls into three parts, being ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...