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Senarens, Luis Philip
(1863-1939) US editor, publishing aide and author. Under at least twenty-seven pseudonyms he wrote perhaps 2000 stories, mostly boys' fiction, beginning in his teens. In later life, when that market declined, he served as managing editor for the Tousey publications, edited the weekly Moving Picture Stories and wrote motion-picture scenarios. He remains best known for his early work. In 1879, under the House Name "Noname", he ...
Bourne Films
Very loosely based on the Jason Bourne series of novels by Robert Ludlum and subsequently Eric Van Lustbader, the Bourne films comprise one tightly-knit trilogy starring Matt Damon; plus the first of a projected series of continuations starring Jeremy Renner as a differently modified CIA operative, who is also on the run; plus a late continuation of the original story – perhaps because the outlier parallel ...
Slaughterhouse-Five
Film (1972). Vanadas/Universal. Directed by George Roy Hill. Written by Stephen Geller, based on Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Cast includes Sharon Gans, Ron Leibman, Valerie Perrine, Eugene Roche and Michael Sacks. 104 minutes. Colour. / A middle-class, middle-aged American (Sacks), dissatisfied with his job, marriage and life in general, starts to experience sudden shifts in time, mainly ...
Eerie Publications
Myron Fass of M F Enterprises (which see) enjoyed much greater Comics success with Eerie Publications, which issued black-and-white comics-format magazines, starting (like M F Enterprises) in 1966. These were anthology-type publications, mostly in the Horror genre, although all of them ran sf stories from time to time. The vast majority of material that appeared was ...
Lee, Sharon
(1952- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "A Matter of Ceremony" (May 1980 Amazing). Almost all her further work has been in collaboration with Steve Miller, their main endeavour being the extended Liaden Universe sequence of Space Opera tales, set in expansive (though not adventurously described) interstellar venues. The first three titles, ...
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 ...