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Miller, William Amos
(circa 1875-? ) UK-born author, in USA from childhood, who briefly describes his experience of being both blind and deaf in the preface to his Utopia, The Sovereign Guide: A Tale of Eden (1898), whose San Francisco-based protagonist, on a visit to Rome, is taken by an angel to a Magnet-powered submarine which conducts him downwards into the Hollow Earth. Here he ...
Buis, Lela E
(? - ) US author who has also written as by L Crittenden and Lee Crittenden; she began to publish work of genre interest with "GP Venture" as by L Crittenden in Abortion Stories: Fiction on Fire (anth 1992) edited by Rick Lawler, assembling her short work in collections beginning with Desperate Lives (coll 2013), which was gathered together with other volumes as Moonshadows: A Collection of Short Stories (omni ...
Stoppard, Tom
Working name of Czech-born playwright and screenwriter Tomáš Straussler (1937- ), in the UK since 1946, the Stoppard surname being acquired from his stepfather when his widowed mother remarried in 1945. His early dramatic work was characterized by extravagant wit and wordplay, and an Absurdist application of logic to surreal or insane situations. Following the broadcast of several Radio plays, his ...
McIntee, David A
(1968- ) UK author, almost all of whose work has consisted of Ties to the Doctor Who universe, beginning with Doctor Who: The New Adventures: White Darkness (1993); in the twenty-first century, he has begun to supply Ties to other enterprises as well. Delta Quadrant: The Unofficial Guide to Voyager (2000) is a useful guide to the Star Trek: Voyager sub-domain ...
Minority Report
Film (2002). Twentieth Century Fox and DreamWorks Pictures present a Cruise/Wagner/Blue Tulip/Ronald Shusett/Gary Oldman production. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Written by Scott Frank, Jon Cohen, based on "The Minority Report" (January 1956 Fantastic Universe) by Philip K Dick. Cast includes Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Kathryn Morris, Samantha Morton and Max von Sydow. 145 ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...