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Hickling, Hugh
(1920-2007) UK lawyer, civil servant and author, whose The Furious Evangelist: Being the Memoirs of Richard Civet During a Time of Moral Breakdown (1950) is a Dystopia reflecting the distress of an intelligent conservative mind caught in the insecure years after World War Two, in which he served 1941-1945 as seaman and naval officer. [JC]
Keyes, Daniel
(1927-2014) US author and university lecturer in English. He began his sf career as associate editor of Marvel Science Fiction (see Marvel Science Stories), February-November 1951, and began publishing work of genre interest in that magazine with "Precedent" in 1952. He is known mainly for one excellent novel, Flowers for Algernon (April 1959 F&SF; exp 1966), winner of a 1960 ...
Runaway Brain
US animated short film (1995). Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios. Directed by Chris Bailey. Story by Tim Hauser. Voice cast includes Wayne Allwine, Jim Cummings, Kelsey Grammer and Russi Taylor. 8 minutes. Colour. / Mickey Mouse (Allwine), engrossed in a Snow White Videogame – the witch is about to despatch the final dwarf – denies he has forgotten this is the anniversary of his first date with Minnie (Taylor) and ...
Final Countdown, The
Film (1980). Bryna Company/United Artists. Directed by Don Taylor. Written by David Ambrose, Gerry Davis, Thomas Hunter, Peter Powell, based on a story by Hunter, Powell, Ambrose. Cast includes Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, James Farentino, Katharine Ross and Martin Sheen. 105 minutes. Colour. / The Nimitz, a (real) aircraft carrier on manoeuvres off Hawaii in 1980, is caught in a strange storm which turns out to be a time-warp (see ...
Rountree, Josh
(1973- ) US author who sometimes writes under his full name Joshua Rountree, and who began to publish work of genre interest with "Fool's Tile" in Glyph for 15 December 2002. Much of his early work was assembled as Can't Buy Me Faded Love (coll 2007), with several tales placing various popular singer-songwriters and rock'n'roll performers into Alternate History worlds, rather after the fashion of Howard ...
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 ...