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Saperstein, David

(1937-    ) US author, producer, director and screenwriter whose original storyline was the basis of the film Cocoon (1985) directed by Ron Howard. Saperstein also novelized the script as Cocoon (1985) and wrote his own sequels Metamorphosis (1988) – not based on the film's sequel – and Butterfly: Tomorrow's Children (2013 ebook).

Further work of genre interest includes the Evil on Earth sequence of Near Future thrillers with supernatural elements, opening with Red Devil (1989; rev vt Red Devil: The Book of Satan 2014), in which nuclear World War Three must be averted, and continuing with Green Devil: The Book of Belial (2015), whose titular fallen archangel in billionaire guise plans to destroy Earth's Ecology with radioactive-waste Pollution, especially of City water supplies. The standalone Snatched (2015) riffs humorously on the Alien abduction theme: following a dating-agency jape, six single female friends, no longer young, are simultaneously whisked away from Earth and three years later reappear with youth restored (see Rejuvenation) and all pregnant; having willingly acquired humanoid partners elsewhere in the galaxy, they have now been returned to the homeworld to give birth, as required by galactic law. Shenanigans and media upheavals ensue. [DRL]

David Allan Saperstein

born New York: 19 March 1937

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Cocoon

Evil on Earth

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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 18:02 pm on 11 December 2024.
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