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Wacks, Peter J

(1976-    ) US publisher and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Cat's Paw" in Of Fur and Fire: Tales of Cats & Dragons (anth 2011) edited by Dana Bell, Zeno Panagakos and Diann Wacks. Much of his work, like the Affinities Cycle series beginning with Bloodletting Part 1 (2014) with Mark Ryan, is fantasy [series not listed below]. His sf novel, Solar Singularity (2017) with Guy Anthony ...

Scott, Hugh

(?   -    ) Scottish teacher, journalist and author most of whose work has been Fantasy and supernatural tales for the Young Adult market, beginning (after an untraced story which won the Women's Realm competition in 1982) with The Shaman's Stone (1988); tales for younger children are not listed below. Of sf interest is The Plant That Ate the World (1988), a ...

Lim, Eugene

(?   -    ) US professional librarian and author, active from the early 2000s, whose works of interest can be characterized as metafictions (see Fabulation; Postmodernism and SF). Fog & Car (2008) is gonzo but essentially nonfantastic. One of the disjointed narrative paths in The Strangers [for subtitle see Checklist below] (2013) includes a crew of ...

Finlay, C C

Working name of Charles Coleman Finlay (1964-    ), US author and editor who is married to Rae Carson; his first work of genre interest was "Footnotes" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for August 2001. This, like other early work including the fantasy novel The Prodigal Troll (2005), was published under his full name. His Traitor to the Crown trilogy opening with ...

Incredible Petrified World, The

Film (1957). GBM Productions/Governor Productions. Produced and directed by Jerry Warren. Written by John W Steiner. Underwater photography by Mel Fisher. Cast includes Maurice Bernard, John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates, Sheila Noonan and Allen Windsor. 70 minutes, cut to 64 minutes for home video release. / Professor Millard Wyman (Carradine) has developed an experimental diving bell capable of reaching greater depths Under the Sea than ...

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 ...



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