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Nowhere Man
US tv series (1995-1996). Lawrence Hertzog Productions/Touchstone Television for UPN TV network. Created by Lawrence Hertzog. Produced by Peter Dunne. Directors included Michael Levine, Tobe Hooper, Steve Safford and Ian Toynton. Writers included Erica Byrne, Dunne, David Ehrman and Joel Surnow. Cast includes Megan Gallagher, Bruce Greenwood, Jay Arlen Jones and Murray Rubinstein. One 65-minute pilot plus 24 45-minute episodes. Colour. / Photojournalist Thomas Veil (Greenwood) ...
Scholz, Carter
(1953- ) US author and composer who began publishing sf with "The Eve of the Last Apollo" for Orbit 18 (anth 1976) edited by Damon Knight, and whose short fiction, which appeared with some frequency for the next decade, constitutes a series of dark and fluid visions of the inhabitants of the world to come. None of these stories were included in a Scholz collection for many years: Cuts (coll 1985 chap) restricts ...
Denning, Troy
(1958- ) US author best known for numerous fantasy Ties, mostly in the Dark Sun and Forgotten Realms domains, at least once using the pseudonym or House Name Richard Awlinson for a title in the latter franchise; these are not listed below. Of sf interest are Ties like the Gamebook ...
Simpson, Helen
(1897-1940) Australian playwright and author, mostly in the UK from April 1914; she was employed as a message decoder in World War One. In 1919 she founded the Oxford Women's Dramatic Society, but was sent down by the university for appearing on stage with a man. The Baseless Fabric (coll 1925) assembles supernatural and weird fiction; Mumbudget (coll 1928) assembles fairy tales. John Dee's recounting of ...
Acid Mothers Temple
Prolific Japanese space-rock band who released over fifty albums under various names in their first decade, and who specialize in prolonged shambolic improvised jam-session music. Albums include Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (1997), 41st Century Splendid Man (2002), Univers Zen, ou de zéro à zéro (2002) and Hypnotic Liquid Machine from the Golden Utopia (2004); but ...
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 ...