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Churchill, Caryl
(1938- ) UK playwright, active and prolific from 1958, around forty of whose plays have been professionally presented on Radio, Television and the stage (see Theatre). Though much of her work, as typical in the Theatre, makes metaphorized use of fantasy topoi, several of her many dramas can be experienced in terms of literal ...
Connell, Alan
(1916-1994) Australian author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Reign of the Reptiles" in Wonder Stories for August 1935, but who remains known almost solely for his Serpent Land sequence, comprising Lords of Serpent Land (1945 chap), Prisoners in Serpent Land (1945 chap) and Warriors of Serpent Land (1945 chap), all three being assembled as Lords of Serpent Land (omni 1991). ...
Peters, Alan
(? -? ) UK author of The Secret Formula (1932), a Near Future tale in which a cure for cancer is discovered (see Medicine). [JC]
Margulies, Leo
(1900-1975) US publisher and editor, who joined the Frank A Munsey chain of Pulp magazines in 1932, later moving to Beacon Magazines and becoming editorial director of Thrilling Wonder Stories when Beacon began publishing that title in 1936. Margulies had overall responsibility for the entire output of the chain; this later included the magazines Captain Future, ...
Nueva Dimensión
["New Dimension"] The most important and longest-running sf magazine in Spain, published by Domingo Santos, Luis Vigil and Sebastián Martínez. Nueva Dimensión (1968-1983), popularly known as ND, published 148 regular issues, five extra issues and issued several collections of books. The schedule was initially bimonthly and changed to monthly after issue #20. It began with 168 pages that were reduced ...
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 ...