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Leonard, Lawrence
(1923-2001) UK cellist, conductor, composer and author whose Young Adult tale, The Horn of Mortal Danger (1980), is set primarily Underground beneath London, where an ancient race, distinguishable from surface humans mostly by their small stature (see Great and Small), has flourished for many centuries by carefully imitating life on the surface. From ...
Terrahawks
UK tv series (1983-1986). Anderson Burr Pictures/London Weekend Television. Created by Gerry Anderson, produced by Anderson, Christopher Burr; directors Alan Pattillo, Tony Bell, Tony Lenny, Desmond Saunders; all episodes written by Tony Barwick (one with Trevor Lansdown) except for pilot, by Anderson. Three seasons, 39 25-minute episodes in all. / Using more advanced puppets than in all his SuperMarionation ...
Mysterious Stories
US Comic (1954-1955). 6 issues (numbered #2-#7). Premier Magazines Inc. Artists include Hy Fleishman, Alvin Hollingsworth and George Woodbridge. 36 pages. Four long strips and two one-page text stories per issue. / Mysterious Stories was a largely forgettable magazine of mild Horror leaning towards adventure, Fantasy and Humour. The first five issues had a strip where ...
Nelson, Camilla
(1967- ) Australian author of Perverse Acts (1998), a Near Future story set in a Dystopian Australia beset by violent conflict between the right and the centre (see Politics). [JC]
Scientific Thrillers
Australian publication which may be regarded either as a Chapbook series or a Magazine: Digest format, monthly November 1948 to May 1952, mostly undated, initially published by Associated General Publications, Sydney, company name changed to Transport Publications from #3 (January 1949). 43 issues in all; page count varied from 32pp to 52pp. The uncredited editors were Alister ...
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 ...