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Warner, Harry, Jr
(1922-2003) US journalist, author and sf fan, publisher of several Fanzines, including Spaceways and the long-lived Horizons, which appeared regularly in FAPA from 1939 until his death (it was also his contribution to the rival VAPA). He was noted for prolific writing of letters of comment to others' fanzines for most of this period. Warner also made several professional sales to ...
Captain Zero
US Pulp magazine, three bimonthly issues, November 1949-March 1950, published by Recreational Reading Corp., Indiana, edited anonymously by Alden H Norton. Each issue contained a novel written by prolific pulp author G T Fleming-Roberts (1910-1968). As a result of a radiation overdose, Captain Zero (alias "The Master of Midnight") becomes involuntarily Invisible at night; he uses his unwanted ...
Keohane, Daniel G
(1963- ) US author who has also published as by Dan Keohane and G Daniel Gunn, most of his work being horror. He began to publish work of genre interest with "Incineration" in Cemetery Sonata (anth 1999) edited by June Hubbard; his first novel, Solomon's Grave (2009), describes with hints of Time Abyss the search for an ancient secret whose revelation may spell doom. Destroyer of Worlds (2012) as by ...
Shyamalan, M Night
(1970- ) US filmmaker, born in India to Philadelphia-based parents; the city and environs serve as settings for most of his films. His first feature Praying with Anger (1992) explored aspects of his Indian-American identity; his second, Wide Awake (1998), emerged from a brief flirtation with family comedy which also saw work on the screenplay for Stuart Little (1999). He came to wider attention that year with his third feature as ...
Charly
Film (1968). Selmur and Robertson Associates. Directed by Ralph Nelson. Written by Stirling Silliphant, based on Flowers for Algernon (April 1959 F&SF; exp 1966) by Daniel Keyes. Cast includes Claire Bloom, Cliff Robertson, Lilia Skala and Dick van Patten. 106 minutes. Colour. / The first screen adaptation of Flowers for Algernon was The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon (1961), a ...
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 ...