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Compton, D G
(1930-2023) UK author, born of parents who were both in the theatre; he increasingly lived in the USA after 1981. As Guy Compton, he published some unremarkable detective novels, beginning with Too Many Murderers (1962), and as by Frances Lynch produced some nonfantastic Gothics throughout his career; but soon turned to sf with tales almost always set in the Near Future, and anatomizing moral dilemmas within that arena: the future is very clearly ...
Morgan, Joseph
(1671-1742) US minister, entrepreneur and author in various modes. His The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah [for subtitle see Checklist] (1715; cut vt Brief History of the Country of Humanity [for subtitle see Checklist] 1728), as by A Traveller in Basaruah, stands as the first prose fiction written and published in what would become the USA. Though more important as an allegory than as an example of Proto SF, Basaruah does ...
Lindsay, Vachel
(1879-1931) US poet, the clanging visionary primitivism of whose best-known work – the poems assembled in The Congo and Other Poems (coll 1914) – may have been ingenuous; some of the poems in Going-to-the-Sun (coll 1923) are of sf interest (see Poetry), one of them being adapted by John Clute for his sf novel Appleseed (2001). His Cinema criticism – ...
Alper, Gerald A
(? - ) Writer of whom nothing is known beyond his authorship of the Time-Travel novel My Name Is Vladimir Sloifoiski (1970), a routine exploration of Identity issues. [JC]
AMBA
Russian animated short film in two parts (1994-1995; original title Amba Film Pervyy). Ekran. Directed and written by Gennady Tischenko. Voice cast includes Vsevolod Abdulov, Lyudmila Gnilova and Aleksandr Lushchik. 8 minutes and 10 minutes. Colour. / A sequel to Tischenko's earlier two-part serial Geona's Vampires (1991) and Masters of Geona (1992), this again features Inspector Yanin of the ...
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 ...