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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Wilson, Kelpie
(1956- ) US engineer, environmental activist, journalist and author whose sf novel Primal Tears (2005) is an Apes as Human tale describing the birth and upbringing of a hybrid child, half Homo sapiens and half bonobo. A right-wing Christian fundamentalist sect threatens to destroy her (see Religion), but she escapes into the forests along the Pacific Rim, where she lives with protesters ...
Cabin in the Woods, The
Film (2012). Lionsgate presents a Mutant Enemy production in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists. Directed by Drew Goddard. Written by Goddard and Joss Whedon. Cast includes Amy Acker, Kristen Connolly, Tim DeZarn, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Richard Jenkins, Fran Kranz, Sigourney Weaver, Brian J White, Bradley Whitford and Jesse Williams. 95 minutes. Colour. / The Clichés of "slasher" ...
Priest, Cherie
(1975- ) US author who began publishing with the first volume of her Eden Moore sequence of Southern Gothic horror novels, comprising Four and Twenty Blackbirds (2003; exp rev Four and Twenty Blackbirds 2005), Wings to the Kingdom (2006) and Not Flesh Nor Feathers (2007); the series, circling around a young girl who becomes a woman while remaining sensitive to ghosts, focuses sharply on the complicity of ...
Key, Ted
(1912-2008) US cartoonist and author born Theodore Keyser, active as a cartoonist from the early 1930s, his most famous cartoon creation being the Hazel strip for the Saturday Evening Post, which was adapted as a 1961-1965 television series. In the 1950s he adopted the surname Key that had been taken by his father during World War One. His children's story The Biggest Dog in the World (1960 chap), about a ...
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 ...