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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Stephensen-Payne, Phil
(1952- ) UK bibliographer who regularly supplied UK publishing data to Locus from 1986 to the beginning of 1994, and who has compiled, often in collaboration with Gordon Benson Jr, a number of extremely useful "working Bibliographies" of sf writers, including Poul Anderson (with Benson), Brian W Aldiss, John ...
Starlost, The
Canadian tv series, syndicated by CTV (1973). Executive producers Douglas Trumbull, Jerry Zeitman. Produced by William Davidson. Series created Cordwainer Bird (pseudonym of Harlan Ellison). Technical advisor Ben Bova. Cast includes Keir Dullea, William Osler, Gay Rowen and Robin Ward. One season of 17 50-minute episodes. Colour. / This series about life on a vast ...
Amazing Stories Science Fiction Novel
US Digest-size magazine. One undated issue, June 1957, published by Ziff-Davis; edited (uncredited) by Paul W Fairman. This was to be a quarterly magazine printing book-length novels in imitation of Galaxy Science Fiction Novels. The only novel was Henry Slesar's routine novelization of the film ...
Alias
US tv series (2001-2006). Bad Robot Productions for ABC. Created by J J Abrams. Producers include Abrams, Ken Olin, Jesse Alexander, and Jeff Pinkner. Writers included Abrams, Pinkner, Alexander, Monica Breen, Alison Schapker, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and J R Orci. Directors included Abrams, Olin, Lawrence Trilling and Jack Bender. Cast includes Bradley Cooper (Will Tippin; seasons 1-2), Merrin Dungey (Francie Calfo; seasons 1-2), Victor Garber (Jack ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star ...