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Sarrantonio, Al

(1952-2025) US editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ahead of the Joneses" in Asimov's for March 1979. Much of his work was horror, sometimes tinged with sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Worms (1985), a Gothic tale set in Massachusetts with hints of H P Lovecraft; and the Equipoisal Moonbane ...

Phantom from Space

Film (1953). Planet Filmways Inc. Directed by W Lee Wilder. Written by William Raynor and Myles Wilder, based on a story by Myles Wilder. Cast includes Rudolph Anders, Ted Cooper, Harry Landers, Noreen Nash and James Seay. 73 minutes. Black and white. / After a strange craft from space is observed approaching Santa Monica, there are reports of an unidentified man walking around in ...

Jeury, Michel

(1934-2015) French author whose apprentice sf in the 1960s was written as by Albert Higon (a pseudonym he used occasionally in later decades as well); his first novel under his own name, Le temps incertain (1973; trans Maxim Jakubowski as Chronolysis 1980), very clearly evokes the world and methods of Philip K Dick in a Changewar plot that pits agents from a fascist ...

O'Brien, Sean

(?   -    ) US teacher and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "World Enough and Time" in The Leading Edge for February 1997. His first novel, A Muse of Fire (2010 ebook), follows the childhood of a potential Superman on the colony planet of Mnemosyne (see Colonization of Other Worlds). ...

Horseman, Elaine

(1924-1999) UK author of the Hubble sequence of novels for children; they are predominantly fantasy, though The Hubbles and The Robot (1968) plays lightly with Robots and with other sf subjects. [JC]

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 ...



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