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Moore, Chris
(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...
Crawley, Rayburn
Pseudonym of US authors Laura Spencer Portor Pope (1872-1957) and Dorothy Giles (? -? ) for their Yellow Ape sequence, comprising The Valley of Creeping Men (1930) and Chattering Gods (1931), in which two young women – along with the man they both love, and mysterious figures associated with Dr Sergius Marakoff, the Mad Scientist father of one of the girls – find themselves ...
Nauman, A D
(? -? ) US author of a Dystopia, Scorch (2001), set in a Near Future America run by a totalitarian network of private enterprises: it is a land in which the population believes it is free (see Advertising). [JC]
Lost Horizon
1. Film (1937). Columbia. Directed by Frank Capra. Written by Robert Riskin, based on Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton. Cast includes Ronald Colman, Edward Everett Horton, Sam Jaffe, Thomas Mitchell, H B Warner and Jane Wyatt. 133 minutes, cut to 118 minutes, then to 109 minutes; but 128 minute print (some lost footage being represented by stills) available from 2000. Black and white. / In this memorably sentimental, deft, ...
Smallville
US tv series (2001-2011). Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar for the WB Network (2001-2006) and the CW Network (2006-2011). Producers include Gough, Millar, Joe Davola, Brian Robbins, and Michael Tollin. Directors include James Marshall, Greg Beeman, Mike Rohl, Jeannot Szwarc, Terrence O'Hara, and Glen Winter. Writers include Gough, Millar, Tim McCanlies, Brian Wayne Peterson, Kelly Souders, and Todd Slavkin. Cast includes Tom Welling as Clark Kent, Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan, ...
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 ...