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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
It Conquered the World
Film (1956). Sunset/American International. Produced and directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B Griffith, though screenplay credit is to Lou Rusoff. Cast includes Beverly Garland, Peter Graves and Lee Van Cleef. 71 minutes. Black and white. / This film only just survives its ridiculous monster (cone-shaped with fangs) and the usual hurried air of a Corman production, but there's plenty of interest in the tale of an idealistic but weak ...
Big Pull, The
UK tv serial (1962). BBC. Producer Terence Dudley. Written Robert Gould. Cast includes William Dexter, Susan Purdie, June Tobin and Frederick Treves. Six 30-minute episodes. Black and white. / This fondly remembered thriller about alien Invasion, quite generously budgeted, has an astronaut returning to Earth after contamination by something strange in the Van Allen belts. There follow a series of strange "fusions" in which pairs of humans, one "dead" and ...
Krofft Brothers, The
The Canadian puppeteer siblings Marty Krofft (1937-2023) and Sid Krofft (1929- ), of Greek/Hungarian origin with birth names Moshopopoulos and Cydus Yolas, were responsible for several well-remembered children's Television series. These began with The Banana Splits (1968-1970) for Hanna-Barbera – starring the titular puppet rock group – followed by their ...
Griffiths, Isabel
(? -? ) Author, presumably UK, of whom nothing is know beyond her one sf novel, Three Worlds (1922), set in a universe where, by a device that anticipates the Multiverse of later generations, three different versions of the protagonist's world exist simultaneously: one mundane; the second oneiric; the third metaphysical. [JC]
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 ...