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Graham, P Anderson
(1856-1925) UK editor and author, active from before 1890, mostly on rural themes, his earlier work including The Rural Exodus: The Problem of the Village and the Town (1892) and The Victorian Era (1897). Graham's infrequent fiction, including The Red Scaur: A Novel of Manners (1897), is nonfantastic, with the exception of his last major work, The Collapse of Homo Sapiens (1923), a Ruined Earth ...
Journal Wired
Semi-annual Semiprozine from a Small Press in trade paperback form ("bookazine"), Winter 1989 to Summer/Fall 1990, 3 issues only, published and edited from California and Colorado by Andy Watson and Mark V Ziesing. This hip, elegant and irreverent periodical ran fiction by a mixture of interesting new writers and better known names (like Paul ...
Schaffer, Gene
(1941- ) US author in whose sf novel, Countdown to Doomsday (1982), Aliens direct a remote-control satellite to Earth, where it emits a Ray that makes all women infertile; the purpose is eventually to clear the planet of humans. [JC]
McCullough, Kelly
(1967- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "WebMage" in Weird Tales for Fall 1999, a tale which was expanded into Webmage (2006), the first of the Equipoisal WebMage sequence which continues with Cybermancy (2007), CodeSpell (2008) and MythOS (2009). The sequence – set in a kind of ...
Pasi Spre Lună
Romanian film (1963; vt Steps to the Moon). Studioul Cinematografic București. Directed and written by Ion Popescu-Gopo. Cast includes Radu Beligan, George Demetru, Ileann Fira, Ion Manu, Irina Petrescu, Fionn Piersic and Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic. 74 minutes, cut to 57 minutes. Black and white. / Only the opening sequence of this film fully qualifies as sf, as an adult man in a suit (not a boy, as numerous online references indicate) rushes to ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book ...