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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. ...
Wieler, Diana J
(1961- ) Canadian author whose Young Adult RanVan sequence beginning with RanVan the Defender (1993) whose protagonist, through his obsession with Videogames, develops the ability to uncover evil through a camera that, using a Superpower that has been bestowed upon him, is able to penetrate untruths and to right wrongs. The action is constant, and ...
Horizon Zero Dawn
Videogame (2017). Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment. Directed by Mathijs de Jonge. Written by John Gonzalez and Men McCaw, additional writing by Meg Jayanth, Ben Schroder, Anne Toole, Dee Warrick. Cast includes Ashly Burch, JB Blanc, John Hopkins, Crispin Freeman, Lance Reddick, Nicolette McKenzie and Josh Keaton. Playstation 4 and PC. / In a Post-Holocaust world where the memory of present-day humanity ...
Space Ghost
US animated tv series (1966-1968; vt Space Ghost and Dino Boy). Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS-TV. Produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Created by Alex Toth. Directed by Hanna, and Barbera. Writers included Walter Black, William Hamilton, Joe Ruby, and Ken Spears. Space Ghost cast includes Ted Cassiday, Keye Luke, Tim Matheson, Don Messick, Gary Owens and Ginny Tyler. Dino Boy cast includes ...
All Gummed Up
Short US film (1947). Columbia Pictures. Directed by Jules White. Written by Felix Adler (story and screenplay). Cast includes Symona Boniface (uncredited), Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Florence Lake (uncredited), Judy Malcolm (uncredited), Christine McIntyre, Norman Ollestad (uncredited), Cy Schindell (uncredited), Emil Sitka, Al Thompson (uncredited), Michael Towne (uncredited), and Victor Travis (uncredited). 18 minutes. Black and white. / The Three Stooges (at the time, ...
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 ...