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Selected Science Fiction
Australian Digest-size magazine. Five slim (32pp saddle-stapled) monthly issues May-September 1955, published by Malian Press, Sydney; edited anonymously by James Mitchell. Selected Science Fiction, a companion to American Science Fiction Magazine, reprinted US material of quite good quality, including work by Philip K Dick, James Blish and ...
Gordon, Bert I
(1922-2023) US filmmaker who typically directed, produced, co-wrote, and did the special effects for his low-budget productions in collaboration with Flora May Gordon (1925-2016) during their marriage (1945-1979). After serving in World War Two and making some Television commercials, he began his film career with King Dinosaur (1955), a generally dire saga of the discovery of living Dinosaurs ...
Absolute Magnitude
US Semiprozine, which began in Spring/Summer 1993, under the title Harsh Mistress; but that name – intended to echo Robert A Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (December 1965-April 1966 If; 1966) – sounded like a bondage magazine to distributors, and the magazine was retitled (its numbering resuming with #1) with its third issue, ...
McGrew, Chandler
(? - ) US horror author of The Darkening (2004), whose Post-Holocaust setting mixes that genre and sf (see Equipoise). [JC]
Gordon, Stuart [2]
(1947-2020) US screenwriter, playwright and director who co-wrote the sf or Science Fantasy play trilogy Warp! with Lenny Kleinfeld, the latter writing as by Bury St Edmund; it was performed by the Chicago Organic Theater company in 1971, had a short Broadway run in February 1973, and was adapted for Comics (thus coming full circle since it been inspired by various Marvel Comics titles, ...
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 ...