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Hawes, James
(1960- ) UK screenwriter and author whose first novel, the slapdash Satire A White Merc With Fins (1996), stirs a pot of story adjacent to Fantastika but subsides agitatedly. Dead Long Enough (2000) dramatizes death-panic, an abstraction that seems to take literal shape. Hawes of some sf interest for Speak for England (2005), whose protagonist, last survivor of a ...
Serpent's Egg, The
Film (1977). Known in Germany as Das Schlangenei. Dino De Laurentiis Corporation/Rialto Film/Bavaria Film. Directed and written by Ingmar Bergman. Cast includes Heinz Bennent, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Liv Ullmann and James Whitmore. 119 minutes. Colour. / Ingmar Bergman's thirty-eighth film as director has generally been understood as a failed attempt to give an intimate portrait of Weimar Berlin in 1923, a place and a period he did not know and was unlikely to ...
Armour, R Coutts
(1874-1945) Australian author, who wrote popular fiction, mostly for magazines, under his own name and under various pseudonyms, including Coutts Brisbane, Pierre Quiroule (a probable House Name), Hartley Tremayne, Reid Whitley (or Whitly), and other names not yet discovered; his career extended from before World War One until at least the late 1930s in sf and continued into the early 1940s in ...
Coleman, James Nelson
(1940-1997) US author of two sf novels, Seeker from the Stars (1967) and The Null-Frequency Impulser (1969), both written during his 1961-circa 1972 imprisonment for multiple burglaries. They are routine adventure stories with Aliens and superscience providing much of the action. [JC]
Claro, Joe
(? - ) US author of a wide range of titles, some as Joe Claro, some as Joseph Claro; those of sf interest include I Can Predict the Future (1972); two Love Bug Ties, Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) and Herbie the Matchmaker (1982); and other film Ties including Condorman (1981), Voyagers! (1982) and SpaceCamp (1986). ...
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 ...