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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Supernatural Horror Filming
UK letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine printed on glossy paper. Publisher: Dorset Publishing Company. Editor: Tim Stout. Two numbered, undated issues published 1969. / One of the relatively rare UK examples of the Movie Monster magazine, this high-quality production came and went quickly, probably because of a lack of appropriate distribution. Apparently distributed only in the United Kingdom, ...
Terror from the Year 5000
US film (1958; vt Cage of Doom). La Jolla Productions. Directed and written by Robert J Gurney Jr; very loosely inspired by "Bottle Baby" (April 1957 Fantastic) by Henry Slesar (uncredited). Cast includes Ward Costello, Frederic Downs, Fred Herrick, Joyce Holden, Salome Jens and John Stratton. 70 minutes. Black and white. / We are loudly informed by the narrator that "in the year 1947 man broke through the sound ...
Stevens, Isaac N
(1858-1920) US lawyer and author of The Liberators: A Story of Future American Politics (1908), in which two young men – an idealist who derives his passion for justice from the example of Abraham Lincoln, and his enormously wealthy friend – work to transform a Near Future America into a land where all will be treated with fairness; all Transportation companies, and other potential trusts, are ...
My Secret Identity
Canadian tv series (1988-1991). Sunrise Films with Scholastic Productions for CTV in Canada; Syndicated US. Created by Fred Fox Jr and Brian Levant. Executive producers Fox and Levant. Directors included Don McBreaty, George Bloomfield and Otta Hanus. Writers included Eric Weinthal, Dawn Ritchie, Martin Lager and Elliot Stern. Cast includes Christopher Bolton, Wanda Cannon, Derek McGrath, Marsha Moreau and Jerry O'Connell. 72 30-minute episodes. Colour. / In a Toronto suburb, ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...