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de Camp, Catherine Crook
(1907-2000) US author, married to L Sprague de Camp from 1939 until her death, and who served as his manager and accountant from the beginning of their partnership; additionally, over and above their several registered collaborations, she worked with her husband on many works released by publishers as by him alone, a lifetime collaboration he in fact openly acknowledged. The Raymond Z Gallun Award, for "outstanding contributions ...
Garson, Vaseleos
Pseudonym of US author William J Garson (? - ), who began to publish work of genre interest with "One Against the Stars" in Planet Stories for Summer 1944, and who was moderately active in the 1940s. His sf novel, Brother Earth (1974), is an elaborate but unremarkable Space Opera. [JC]
Morton, H V
(1892-1979) UK journalist from 1910 and author, in active service during World War One, in South Africa from 1947; best known for his many travel books, beginning with The Heart of London (1926). He is of sf interest for his short Scientific Romance, I, James Blunt (1942 chap), a Hitler Wins tale set in the near Near Future, and ...
Chillers
US letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine. Publisher: Charlton Comics. Editor: Roger Elwood. Three bimonthly issues, July to November 1981. / A final attempt by Charlton at a Monster Movies magazine, this title covered such films of the period as Clash of the Titans (1981), Escape from New York ...
Okja
Film (2017). A US/South Korean co-production. Plan B Entertainment, Lewis Pictures, Kate Street Picture Company, Netflix, Next Entertainment World. Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Written by Bing and Jon Ronson. Cast includes Ahn Seo-hyun, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton and Steven Yeun. 120 minutes. Colour. / The Mirando Corporation, run by Lucy Mirando (Swinton), begins a programme of breeding "super pigs" (see ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...