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Quiet, Please
Radio drama series (1947-1949). Created by Wyllis Cooper (see Radio) for the Mutual Broadcasting Network, then the ABC Radio Network. Written mainly by Cooper. Announcer: Ernest Chappell. 106 30-minute episodes. / The innocent-seeming title disguised what was often one of the most frightening radio anthology series ever broadcast in the US, almost always starring announcer Chappell (1903-1983). While the great majority of the ...
Murray, James
(? - ) US author of sf interest for his Steampunk tale Frankenstein: The Illuminatus Complex (2012), in which Captain Nemo (see Jules Verne) identifies with the Frankenstein Monster (see Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Or the New Prometheus, 1818) and searches for him ...
Rifbjerg, Klaus
(1931-2015) Danish poet and author, who has published at least 100 books since 1956; in his sf novel, De Hellige Aber (1981; trans Steve Murray as Witness to the Future 1987), two adolescents are transported almost half a century forward from 1941 (see Time Travel; World War Two), but find little in the year 1988 to give them joy about Progress. [JC]
Greenberg, Martin H
(1941-2011) US anthologist and academic, not to be confused with Martin Greenberg, no relation. He had a 1969 doctorate in Political Science and taught at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay since 1975, holding the position of Professor of Regional Analysis, Political Science, and Literature and Language, from which he retired in 1996. Most of his own writing, like Bureaucracy and Development: A Mexican Case Study (1970), was in the ...
Vivarium
Film (2019). Lovely Productions in association with Fantastic Films, Frakas Productions, PingPongFilm, XYZ Films. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Written by Garret Shanley from a story by Finnegan and Shanley. Cast includes Jonathan Aris, Jesse Eisenberg, Eanna Hardwicke, Senan Jennings and Imogen Poots. 97 minutes. Colour. / A young couple (Poots and Eisenberg) encounter an unsettling realtor, who takes them to a housing estate of identical, mint-green homes. After the agent vanishes, ...
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 ...