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George, W L
(1882-1926) French-born author in UK from early adulthood, in active service during World War One with the French army, prolific from 1911, modestly controversial in various contexts, including Feminism; but a figure whose work (and reputation) never quite jelled. His one novel of sf interest, Children of the Morning (May-December 1926 The Fortnightly Review; 1926), retains some interest for its unmistakable ...
Teitelbaum, Sheldon
(1955- ) Canadian journalist and film and sf critic, resident 1977-1985 in Israel, where he served close to five years in the infantry and as a staff officer seconded to the paratrooper corps. His sf/horror column in the Jerusalem Post was the first such outside the sf magazines; he also had a film column in the Hebrew-language magazine Fantasia 2000. From 1986 to 1996 Teitelbaum was the Los Angeles ...
Mitchell, Jack
(1977- ) Canadian academic and poet who is of sf interest for his second book-length narrative poem, The Odyssey of Star Wars (2021), a linguistically inventive retelling in Miltonic blank verse of the central epic embedded in the Star Wars universe; Space Opera and epic are made to seem consanguinous. His young-adult tales set in ancient Rome are nonfantastic. [JC] see also: ...
Tron
Film (1982) Lisberger/Kushner/Walt Disney. Directed by Steven Lisberger. Written by Lisberger, from a story by Lisberger, Bonnie MacBird. Cast includes Bruce Boxleitner, Jeff Bridges, Cindy Morgan and David Warner. 96 minutes. Colour. / In this pleasing but lightweight film, a young man (Bridges) seeks evidence about dirty work in the Computer company from which he has just resigned. Smuggled into the firm's building by friends, he is ...
Garnett, Tay
Working name of US film director and author William Taylor Garnett (1884-1977), whose Lost Race novel, Man Laughs Back (1935), is set deep in the South American jungle, where a native civilization, descended from the Incas, is instrumental in keeping a foolhardy surveyor (and his team of twenty-six lads) from disaster. As a director, he is best known for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); of sf interest is ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...