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Congress, The
French-Israeli live action/animated film (2013). Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Pandora Film. Directed and written by Ari Folman, based on Stanisław Lem's "Kongres Futurologiczny" (in Bezsenność, coll 1971; trans as The Futurological Congress 1974). Cast includes Danny Huston and Robin Wright. 122 minutes. Colour. / Miramount Studios has developed the Technology to scan bodies and ...
Radio Boys
Less important and numerous than the extremely popular Airship Boys tales and series in the first half of the twentieth century, the smallish subgenre of boys' stories devoted to Radio Boys remains of some interest in the development of sf. As usual in almost all the series ultimately derived from Dime Novels and – very frequently – written and published to emulate the success of the ...
Mines, Samuel
(1909-1998) US editor who worked from 1942 for Standard Magazines, the chain that published Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories. Although an sf enthusiast – he published four stories in Thrilling Wonder Stories, beginning with "Find the Sculptor" in 1946 – he concentrated mainly editing on non-sf pulps until Sam Merwin Jr left the company in 1951, ...
Steelbaugh, Larry
(? - ) US author of the Tankwar sequence beginning with Tankwar (1990) and ending with Tankwar: Desert Prey (1993), a series of Military SF tales set during World War Three, with a Technothriller focus on tank Technology. Nothing is known of Steelbaugh; the name may be a pseudonym. ...
Bennett, Gregory
(1950- ) US author of sf stories, beginning with "Swan Song" in Analog for August 1993, the journal where all his assertively technophilic fiction has appeared. In 1993 he also founded The Artemis Project, which advocates a resumption of humanity's progress into space (see Artemis Magazine). [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 ...