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Raymond, James F
(1826-? ) US author of two Lost Race tales. The Lost Colony (1891), set during the American Civil War, is of limited interest as a lost race tale, the previously undiscovered Island in the Atlantic Ocean being inhabited by shipwrecked Puritans, though the agrarian Utopia they have created is well described. Though not coherently assembled, The Old Mountain Hermit (fixup ...
Dr No
Film (1962). Eon/United Artists. Directed by Terence Young. Written by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather, based on Dr No (1958) by Ian Fleming. Cast includes Ursula Andress, Sean Connery, Jack Lord and Joseph Wiseman. 105 minutes. Colour. / This UK film was the first in the hugely successful James Bond series, at first loosely based on Fleming's novels and later featuring original stories. The villain, whose ...
Hager, Mandy
Working name of New Zealand teacher and author Amanda Hager (1960- ), most of whose early work – like her first novel, Run For The Trees (1999) – was nonfantastic. Of sf interest is the Young Adult Blood of the Lamb sequence, comprising The Crossing (2009), Into the Wilderness (2010) and Resurrection (2011), a Ruined Earth tale set ...
Sawyer, Robert J
(1960- ) Canadian author, one of the two or three most prominent Canadian sf writers, married to sf poet Carolyn Clink; though he publishes widely, with most of his books being released by New York firms, his work is notable for its frequent use of Canadian settings; it is a mark of twenty-first century Genre SF that Canada and Canadian settings are now ...
Koch, Polly
(? - ) US author of Invisible Borders (1991) whose protagonist Timeslips from back and forth between her 1950s childhood and her Near Future life in a commune constructed on Feminist principles; the world of the future is, however, envelopingly Dystopian. [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 ...