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Brown, Eric
(1960-2023) UK author who began publishing sf – after a children's play, Noel's Ark (1982 chap) – with "Krash-Bangg Joe and the Pineal-Zen Equation" for Interzone in Autumn 1987; like several further tales assembled in The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories (coll 1990), it is set in a future world dominated by the effects of bio-engineering and dense with information. This marriage of Cordwainer ...
Satellite Science Fiction
US magazine, 18 issues October 1956 to May 1959, began as a Digest until December 1958 and then letter-size, February to May 1959; bimonthly, but monthly for last four issues (February-May 1959). Published by Renown Publications, New York. Cylvia Kleinman (Mrs Leo Margulies) was managing editor on all issues, which were edited by Sam Merwin Jr October to December 1956, Leo Margulies February 1957 to ...
Boucher, Chris
(1943-2022) UK Television screenwriter, script/continuity editor and author whose first work of genre interest was the four-part Doctor Who serial The Face of Evil (1-22 January 1977), featuring the Fourth Doctor and introducing the popular Doctor's companion Leela. Further Doctor Who serials in the same year were The Robots of Death (29 January-19 February 1977) and Image of the Fendahl (29 ...
Roborally
Board Game (1994). Wizards of the Coast (WotC). Designed by Richard Garfield. / RoboRally is a light hearted game of Robot carnage, reminiscent of the UK television series Robot Wars (1997-2003) or the US BattleBots (2000-2002). The players are bored supercomputers who decide to relieve their ennui by staging a race around a series of checkpoints with ...
Famous Monsters Do-It-Yourself Make-Up Handbook
US letter-size perfect-bound Media Magazine printed on newsprint-quality paper. Publisher: Warren Publishing. No editor named. One unnumbered issue only, 1965. / This special Monster make-up effects publication was written by the visual effects master Dick Smith as a step-by-step guide for the young audience of ...
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 ...