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Broderick, Damien
(1944-2025) Australian author, editor and critic; he had a PhD in the semiotics of fiction, science and sf with special reference to the work of Samuel R Delany. He edited four anthologies of Australian sf: The Zeitgeist Machine (anth 1977), Strange Attractors (anth 1985), Matilda at the Speed of Light (anth 1988) and Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (anth ...
Aikin, Jim
Working name of US author James Douglas Aikin (1948- ), most of whose books are technical manuals for producing electronic music. His first sf novel, Walk the Moons Road (1985), gives operatic colour to a moderately intricate Planetary Romance featuring Aliens, humans, seas, Politics and Sex on a planet which is not Earth. His second novel, ...
Williams, Tad
Working name of US author Robert Paul Williams (1957- ), almost all of whose work has been fantasy, including his first novel, Tailchaser's Song (1985), and whose most influential work is the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn sequence comprising The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Stone of Farewell (1990) and To Green Angel Tower (1993; vt in 2 vols Siege 1994 UK and Storm 1994 UK), which is ...
Hussingtree, Martin
Pseudonym of UK politician, journalist and author Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin (1899-1958), a Labour Member of Parliament 1929-1931 and 1945-1947; son of the British politician Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), Labour prime minister 1935-1937; his pseudonym is taken from Martin Hussingtree, a small village in Worcestershire not far from the Baldwin family ironworks factory in Wilden. Baldwin's experiences during active service in World War One were devastating, avowedly ...
Creature from Black Lake
Film (1976). Howco International Pictures/Cinema Shares International Distribution. Produced by Jim McCullough Sr. Directed by Joy N Houck Jr. Written by Jim McCullough Jr. Cast includes John David Carson, Jack Elam, Dennis Fimple, Roy Tatum, Dub Taylor and Bill Thurman. 91 minutes. Colour. / University of Chicago anthropology students Pahoo (Fimple) and Rives (Carson) hear reports of a Bigfoot-like creature (see Apes as Human) inhabiting swamplands ...
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 ...