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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld (see Flat Earth) resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the ...
Century
US Small Press literary magazine of science fiction and fantasy, published by Century Publishing, Madison, Wisconsin; a joint enterprise, for the first four issues, between publisher Meg Hamel and editor Robert Killheffer. The first issue appeared in March/April 1995, though there was a slim "preview" issue some months earlier. It was printed in review format (see Magazines), with artistic covers and nothing ...
MacApp, C C
Pseudonym used by US colour printer Carroll M Capps (1913-1971) in his writing career, which began – after illness forced his retirement – with "A Pride of Islands" in If for May 1960, with which magazine (and its stablemates) he was chiefly associated for the balance of his short career. Much of his fiction concerns itself with Invasions by Aliens, notably the Gree stories in ...
Kellogg, Marjorie Bradley
(1946- ) US designer of theatre scenery and author who published her first three novels as by M Bradley Kellogg to avoid confusion with another Marjorie Kellogg, but from 1991 has used her full name. Her first novel, A Rumor of Angels (1983), is unexceptional, but the Lear's Daughters sequence – The Wave and the Flame (1986) and Reign of Fire (1986), both written with NASA climatologist William B Rossow and assembled ...
Visiteurs, Les
French film (1993; vt The Visitors). Gaumont. Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré. Written by Jean-Marie Poiré and Christian Clavier. Cast includes Christian Bujeau, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Valérie Lemercier, Isabelle Nanty and Jean Reno. 107 minutes. Colour. / In 1123, Count Godefroy de Montmirail (Reno) is promised to be married to Frénégonde de Pouilles (Lemercier), a duke's daughter. A witch he has ...
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 ...