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Silberrad, Una L
(1872-1955) UK author, active for about half a century from the mid 1890s, most of her novels comfortably but lucidly supportive of decent middle-class values established during her early prime, but with a bracing Feminist element detectable in many tales. Of sf interest is The Affairs of John Bolsover (coll of linked stories 1911), narrated by an journalist in Near Future London, around 1960; ...
Templeton, Charles
(1915-2001) Canadian newspaper editor, evangelist, broadcaster and author whose novels of sf interest were written long after he had lost his Christian faith. In Act of God (1977) the skeleton of Jesus of Nazareth is found, a discovery which disrupts the world's Christian Religions. A Near Future Utopia is falteringly created in World of One (1988), with evangelism exercising a ...
Kołodziejczak, Tomasz
(1967- ) Polish author of Fantastika; also a screenwriter, publisher, and editor of books, Comics, and Role-Playing Games. / He debuted at age 17 with the serialized short story "Kukiełki" ["Rag Dolls"] (22-29 September 1985 Przegląd Techniczny #38-#39) and quickly became active in Polish sf Fandom, ...
McAllister, Angus
(1943-2023) Scottish solicitor, academic and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Superstition" in Impulse magazine (see Science Fantasy) for June 1966. His first novel published in English, The Krugg Syndrome (1988), is a mild-mannered and amusing tale of a country boy in the big City of Glasgow whose personality has been replaced by that of an Alien Krugg ...
What's So Bad about Feeling Good?
Film (1968). Universal Pictures. Produced and directed by George Seaton. Written by Robert Pirosh and Seaton, based on I Am Thinking of My Darling: An Adventure Story (1943) by Vincent McHugh. Cast includes Jeanne Arnold, Dom DeLuise, Mary Tyler Moore, George Peppard, Susan Saint James, Gillian Spencer and Don Stroud. 94 minutes. Colour. / Artist Pete (Peppard) is living in a commune loft in New York with ...
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 ...