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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the circumambient galactic Deep, in which very few stars ...
Reed, Carmen
(? -? ) US author in whose Earth's Empress and Victoria: A Romance of Two Queenly Souls and of a Revolt in Africa Against a Benign Government (1901) two narrative strands, perhaps unconvincingly, intertwine: a lightly fictionalized dramatization of the Boer War (1899-1902) and a Lost World tale set in the mid-Atlantic, where a Utopian civilization has adapted to life ...
Stump, Jane
(1936- ) US author of two Military SF Technothrillers, Cobra (1991) and Hawkeye (1991) with Chris Morris, writing together as Daniel Stryker. [JC]
Sahakyants, Robert
(1950-2009) Armenian animator and director born in Azerbaijan; his family moved to Armenia in 1964. He studied at the Khachatur Abovyan Pedagogic Institute, though not often enough, being expelled for non-attendance in 1970; by then he had joined the Armenfilm studio as an animator. Sahakyants was appointed as a director in 1972, producing numerous cartoons. In 2008 he was made a People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia. His surname is sometimes spelt "Saakyants" ...
I Come in Peace
Film (1989; vt Dark Angel US). Vision. Directed by Craig R Baxley. Written by Jonathan Tydor and Leonard Maas Jr. Cast includes Brian Benben, Matthias Hues and Dolph Lundgren. 91 minutes. Colour. / Good cop (Lundgren) and silly FBI man (Benben) go up against Alien Drug dealer in Houston, with brief assistance from alien cop. I Come In Peace is rather like a downmarket Alien Nation ...
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 ...