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Killdozer
Made-for-tv film (1974). Universal TV/ABC. Directed by Jerry London. Teleplay Richard Mackillop, Theodore Sturgeon, based on Sturgeon's "Killdozer!" (November 1944 Astounding). Cast includes Carl Betz, Neville Brand and Clint Walker. 74 minutes. Colour. / Though derived from Sturgeon's own well-known story about a huge bulldozer that becomes possessed by a seemingly Alien force – actually ...
Mitchell, David
(1969- ) UK author, in Japan 1994-2000, whose work exhibits a thrusting and muscular (but finely tempered) Equipoise among the genres of Fantastika. His first novel, Ghostwritten: A Novel in Nine Parts (1999), which it would be reductionist to describe as a collection of linked stories, is all the same presented as a set of stories, each of which inhabits a ...
Wilson, Robert Anton
(1932-2007) US author who remains best known for the first Illuminatus! sequence – The Eye in the Pyramid (1975), The Golden Apple (1975) and Leviathan (1975), assembled as The Illuminatus Trilogy (omni 1984) – all written with Robert J Shea. Shea did not collaborate with Wilson on Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977), The Illuminati Papers ...
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson
(1862-1935) US journalist and author, influential and extremely prolific in both capacities; in her column (1890-1896) for the Omaha World-Herald, she took controversial positions, including a condemnation of the massacre of Native Americans at Wounded Knee on 29 December 1890. Her supernatural fiction, which includes the book-length "The Fountain of Youth: A Romance of the Supernatural" (28 October 1894-13 January 1895 Omaha World-Herald) and the tales assembled as ...
Pallander, Edwin
Pseudonym of UK biologist, botanist and author Lancelot Francis Sanderson Bayly (1869-1952), who collaborated with Ellsworth Douglass on one story, "The Wheels of Dr Gynochio Gyves" (September 1899 Cassell's), the protagonist's last Invention being a Spaceship capable of reaching the Moon. Across the Zodiac: A Story of Adventure (1896) is an ...
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 ...