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Campbell, Marilyn
(1948- ) US author whose loose Innerworld romantic Space Opera sequence beginning with Pyramid of Dreams (1992) is set in the Hollow Earth within our planet from where it obscurely dominates life on the surface. Romances and intrigues ricochet back and forth. There is considerable Sex. The pattern is continued in the subsequent Innerworld Affairs sequence ...
Manson, Marilyn
US rock singer, born Bryan Hugh Warner (1969- ), probably better known for his calculatedly outrageous offstage behaviour then his music, though he has numerous devoted followers. His eponymous band's album Mechanical Animals (1998) is a Ziggy Stardust-style concept album about an Alien who is captured on Earth, and turned into a Drug-addled rock star. In tandem with the Bowie-inspired theme, the music ...
Graham, David
Pseudonym of UK author Evan Wright (1919-1994), who is of moderate sf interest for two sf novels for Robert Hale Limited: Down to a Sunless Sea (1979), a genuinely grim Holocaust novel, featuring a few survivors of a devastating nuclear war as they fail to find safe haven; Sidewall (1982) is more routine. [JC]
Gravel, Geary
(1951- ) US author and (since 1978) a Certified Sign Language Interpreter. Most of his later work has been fantasy [see Checklist], though he began publishing work of interest with the sf Autumnworld Mosaic sequence comprising The Alchemists (1984) and The Pathfinders (1986), set in a Galaxy abandoned by superior Aliens after they have passed their technologies on to the human race, which – now that it ...
Haskin, Byron
(1899-1984) US cinematographer, special effects creator and director, in the American army during World War One. His film career began in 1919 when he became an assistant cameraman for Louis J Selznick. He directed four films in 1927, but later worked mostly as a cinematographer; he supervised the special-effects department for Warner Bros 1936-1947. In 1947 he began directing again with I Walk Alone, a Hal Wallis production. In 1952 he formed a ...
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 ...