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Causett, William
Author (? -? ), perhaps pseudonymous, of whom nothing is known beyond the appearance of this byline on the unremarkable Pirates in Space (1954 chap), #2 in the shortlived Fantastic Science Thriller pocketbook series. Causett has sometimes been identified as a pseudonym of the woman who wrote as Erroll Collins, but stylistic evidence suggests otherwise. [DRL/SH]
Moore, David A
(1814-? ) US author of The Age of Progress: Or, a Panorama of Time, in Four Visions (1856), a composite volume in which essays in Biblical typology are set against assays into Future History: for instance, Part One depicts the world of 3000 CE specifically as Eden reborn. [JC]
Hulk
Film (2003). Universal Pictures in association with Marvel Enterprises presents a Valhalla Motion Pictures/Good Machine production. Directed by Ang Lee. Written by John Turman and Michael France and James Schamus; story by Schamus, based on the Marvel Comic by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Don Heck. Cast includes Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas and Nick Nolte. 132 minutes. ...
McCammon, Robert R
(1952- ) US author, a prolific contributor to various subgenres of nonfantastic horror [none listed below], though inevitably, at points, some of his tales contain elements of the fantastic (see Horror in SF). He is of sf interest for two novels in particular. Swan Song (1987) is set in Post-Holocaust desolation after a nuclear World War Three and ...
Atkins, Rev E C
(1855-1949) US minister and author who has sometimes been confused with Bernarr Macfadden, though his story for the latter's journal Physical Culture, "My Bride from the Other World" (?1904 Physical Culture), was ascribed to him not to Macfadden. [MA]
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 ...