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Green Arrow
DC Comics Superhero, created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp in 1941. He has no Superpowers, but his use of modestly innovative Weapons and equipment in battling criminals makes him, like Batman, of marginal sf interest, and of course he had some encounters with Aliens and ...
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 ...
Star Trek: Generations
Film (1994). Paramount. Produced by Rick Berman. Directed by David Carson. Written by Ronald D Moore and Brannon Braga, based on a story by Berman, Moore and Braga. Cast includes LeVar Burton, James Doohan, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Walter Koenig, Malcolm McDowell, Gates McFadden, William Shatner, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart. 117 minutes. Colour. / This ...
Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler, The
Film (1971; vt The Resurrection of Clayton Zachary Wheeler). Madison Productions, Inc/Gold Key Entertainment. Produced by Robert Stabler (credited as Bob Stabler). Directed by Bob Wynn. Written by Jay Simms and Tom Rolf. Cast includes Angie Dickenson, Bradford Dillman and Leslie Nielsen. 100 minutes. Colour. / US Senator Clayton Zachary Wheeler (Dillman) is involved in an auto accident which leaves him very near death; this s witnessed by television news reporter Harry Walsh ...
Endore, S Guy
(1900-1970) US author, film scriptwriter and translator, some of whose realistic Fantasy novels can in a marginal sense be considered as sf (see Psychology). The best known is The Werewolf of Paris (1933), set in the shambles of 1871 Paris, where a French soldier is succumbing to lycanthropy (see Werewolves); this represents on a human scale the civic trauma of the body politic as the ...
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 ...