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Brown, Douglas
(1907-1976) UK journalist, foreign correspondent and author of sf significance for Loss of Eden: A Cautionary Tale (1940; vt If Hitler Comes: A Cautionary Tale 1941) with Christopher Serpell, a strong Hitler Wins tale, presented as the witness manuscript of a contemporary New Zealander discovered much later in Wellington, New Zealand after a volcano has ...
Fisher, David
(1929-2018) UK author and screenwriter who scripted four Doctor Who storylines: The Stones of Blood (28 October-18 November 1978), The Androids of Tara (25 November-16 December 1978), The Creature from the Pit (27 October-17 November 1979) and The Leisure Hive (30 August-20 September 1980), plus an unfinished script much reworked by Douglas Adams and Graham Williams as City of Death (29 September-20 ...
Bogoraz, Vladimir Germanovitch
(1865-1936) Soviet anthropologist and linguist, who also signed himself Waldemar Bogoras and Tan-Bogoraz; a central figure in the study of the Chukchee language of Siberia, on which he published definitively. His sf novel, Zhertvy drakona (1927; trans Stephen Graham as Sons of the Mammoth 1929 US as by Waldemar Bogoras), is Prehistoric SF which reflects his professional concerns in a tale whose Neanderthal protagonists encounter ...
Clever Dummy, A
US silent film (1917). Keystone Film Company. Directed by Ferris Hartman, Robert P Kerr, Herman C Raymaker and Mack Sennett. Written by Mack Sennett. Cast includes Claire Anderson, James DeLano, James Donnelly and Ben Turpin. 19 minutes. Black and white. / An inventor (Donnelly) and his assistant (DeLano) build a "mechanical dummy" (see Inventions), intending to sell it as a vaudeville attraction. It is modelled on the building's janitor, Peter Clay ...
Strete, Craig
(1950- ) US author – the suggestion has been bruited that Strete is the pseudonym of a Native American author of Cherokee birth who does not wish to reveal his real name, but this has not been confirmed. He has written as Strete and as by Sovereign Faulkner, and possibly under other names, by himself and in collaboration; at least forty of the eighty or more stories claimed for him must almost certainly be under unrevealed names. As Strete, he began publishing ...
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 ...