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Bukowski, Helene
(1993- ) German filmmaker and author whose first novel, the Young Adult Milchzähne (2019; trans Jen Calleja as Milk Teeth 2021), sets its soon-to-come-of-age protagonist at the heart of a sequestered Zone, protected temporarily from the ramifications of Near Future Climate Change. She ...
Winch, E
Working name of New-Zealand-born author Marie Elspeth Agnes Winch(1895-1939), in the UK from childhood. Of some sf interest is The Mountain of Gold (1928), a Lost Race tale set in South America, where Incan remains lead deep into the mountains, where a "primitive" Indian "tribe", which has established a Utopian society, is condescendingly discovered, along with Apes as Human foes, and an ...
Gibson, Joe
(1924-2006) US illustrator and author whose involvement in Fandom began a little earlier than the publication of his first work of genre interest, "I Like You, Too –" (October 1948 Thrilling Wonder Stories; 2023 ebook). He also wrote as by John Bridger and Carlton Furth; his illustrations seem to have appeared only in Fanzines. His work, mostly Space Opera, mostly ...
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US tv series (1972-1973). Warner Brothers Television for NBC-TV. Series created by Leslie Stevens. Produced by Robert H Justman, Anthony Spinner. Directors included Russ Mayberry, Allen Reisner, Philip Leacock. Writers included Robert C Dennis, Brad Radnitz, Michael R Stein. Cast includes Anthony Franciosa, Doug McClure, Burgess Meredith and Hugh O'Brian. One 100-minute pilot film entitled Probe, plus 23 50-minute episodes. Colour. / This sf detective series is an example of ...
Sowden, Lewis
(1903-1974) UK-born South African newspaperman and author, in Israel from 1966, whose The Man Who Was Emperor: A Romance (1946) is set in an imaginary country of marginal sf interest. Tomorrow's Comet: A Tale of our own Times (July-August 1949 Blue Book as "Star of Doom"; 1951) deals with the End of the World in psychological terms. [JC/PN]
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 ...