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Klaper, Steven
(? - ) US author of a Near Future noir thriller, Agents of Insight (1986), in which the eponymous agency finds itself being decimated by a formless foe (see Horror in SF). [JC]
Harper, Rory
(1950- ) US author who began publishing sf with "Psycho-Stars" in Asimov's for March 1980, and whose Petrogypsies (in Far Frontiers, anth 1985, ed John F Carr and Jerry Pournelle; exp 1989) is an essentially comic novel set in what seems to be an Alternate History where oil exploration is done by bio-constructs ...
People that Time Forgot, The
Film (1977). Amicus. Directed by Kevin Connor. Written by Patrick Tilley, Connor Carter, Maurice Carter, based on The Land that Time Forgot (stories September-November 1918 Blue Book; fixup 1924) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cast includes Sarah Douglas, Dana Gillespie, Doug McClure, Thorley Walters and Patrick Wayne. 90 minutes. Colour. / After the mild ...
Hemingway, Hilary
(1961- ) US author of several novels in collaboration with her husband, Jeffry P Lindsay; she has also published material about her uncle, Ernest Hemingway. An sf thriller series comprising Dreamland (1995) and Dreamchild (1998), both with Jeffry P Lindsay is told in a UFO mode, featuring an Alien kept secret by the ...
Fei Dao
Pen-name of Jia Liyuan (1983- ) an author and PhD candidate in the Chinese department of Tsinghua University, Beijing. Under his real name, he has published works of sf criticism, including the Han Song study "Gloomy China: China's Image in Han Song's Science Fiction" (March 2013 Science Fiction Studies), and also spoken out as a provocative defender of sf in China, noting ...
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 ...