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Day, Kate Hope
(? - ) US author whose first novel, If, Then (2019), which is set in a sheaf of Parallel Worlds, traces the experiences of several protagonists each of whom is undergoing visions of their lives in different realities; those visitations giving access to the Near Future are increasingly dark with premonitions. In her second novel, the ...
Davis, Harold A
(1903-1955) US author known mainly for his contributions to the Doc Savage universe, writing or collaborating under the series House Name Kenneth Robeson. [JC/DRL]
My Science Project
Film (1985). Touchstone/Silver Screen Partners II. Written and directed by Jonathan R Betuel. Cast includes Dennis Hopper, Raphael Sbarge, Fisher Stevens, John Stockwell and Danielle von Zerneck. 94 minutes, cut to 91 minutes. Colour. / One of an epidemic of teen sf movies (Back to the Future, Explorers, Real Genius, Weird Science, etc.), this was ...
Pemberton-Billing, Noel
(1881-1948) UK aviator, inventor, author, publisher and Member of Parliament for Hertford 1916-1921, who saw military service in the second Boer War; in Australia from 1918. His surname has also been given without the hyphen. He is of sf interest for the play High Treason (first performed 1928; ?1929), a Scientific Romance inspired by Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) and set ...
Lapin, Lawrence
(? - ) US academic and author of a medical sf thriller, Super Virus: Immortal Sins (2009), whose doctor protagonist, attempting to save his wife from breast cancer, invents a virus capable of stopping the disease while simultaneously conferring Immortality. But in the meantime he is suspected of murder. The sequence is projected to continue. [JC]
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 ...