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Forsyth, Frederick
(1938-2025) UK author who gained fame with his first novel, The Day of the Jackal (1971), and whose books are generally political thrillers. The Shepherd (1975 chap), however, is a sentimental Timeslip or ghost fantasy in which a pilot on Christmas Eve 1957 is saved from crashing by a World War Two pilot in an antique bomber: pilot and plane had been shot down on the Christmas Eve of 1943. ...
Favreau, Jon
(1966- ) US filmmaker and actor, who has worked his way diligently up the directorial lists by a willingness to take on a wide range of studio projects across a range of fantasy genres. Already an established screen actor by the mid-nineties, he wrote and/or directed a series of films with Vince Vaughn, beginning with Swingers (1996), as well as a number of films and series episodes for television. After a hit with the Christmas comedy Elf ...
Amazing Stories Annual
US letter-size 128pp Magazine published by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing Company. Its only issue, published in 1927, ran the first publication of The Master Mind of Mars (1927; 1928) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The rest of the issue was made up of reprints from the first year of Amazing Stories. The success of the Annual led to a ...
Marley, Louise
(1952- ) US musician and author who has also written as by Toby Bishop, Cate Campbell and Louisa Morgan, the Campbell pseudonym being used for historical romances [not listed below]; she began to publish work of genre interest with "Body and Blood" in Divine Realms (anth 1998) edited by Susan MacGregor, which was assembled with other early work as Absalom's Mother & Other Stories (coll 2007). Much of her work is fantasy and romance, though ...
Jennings, Shooter
Working name of US musician Waylon Albright Jennings (1979- ). His Black Ribbons (2010) is a concept album purporting to be the final broadcast of DJ Will o’ the Wisp, performed and apparently partly written by Stephen King, before the US government takes control of radio airwaves. The DJ is determined to broadcast the music of the fictional band The Hierophant, who are the band the authorities are most determined to ...
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 ...