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Corman, Roger
(1926-2024) US film-maker, a number of whose films are sf. Born in Los Angeles, he graduated in engineering from Stanford University in 1947, and spent a period in the US Navy and a term at Oxford University before going to Hollywood, where he began to write screenplays; his first sale was Highway Dragnet (1954), a picture he coproduced. He soon formed his own company and launched his spectacularly low-budget career. From 1956 he was regularly associated with ...
Davies, W X
Pseudonym of the unidentified US author (? - ) – described as "a well-known writer" – of the Countdown WWIII sequence of military-sf adventures, beginning with Countdown WWIII: Operation North Africa (1984), featuring a trio (called Triad) of quasi-Superheroes who stave off World War Three in various venues. [JC]
Lowry, Lois
(1937- ) US author of Young Adult novels whose strong-hewed intensity is clearly manifest in the Giver series starting with The Giver (1993), Gathering Blue (2000) and Messenger (2004), all three tales set in Pocket Universe enclaves in what may be a planetary Ruined Earth venue, though no engendering catastrophe is ...
Dr Renault's Secret
Film (1942; vt Buried Alive). 20th Century Fox Films. Directed by Harry Lachman. Produced by Sol M Wurtzel. Written by William Bruckner and Robert F Meltzer based on Balaoo (9 October-18 December Le Matin; 1912; trans 1913) by Gaston Leroux. Cast includes Mike Mazurki (uncredited), J Carroll Naish, Lynne Roberts, Sheppard Strudwick (as John Shepperd), Jean Del Val (uncredited) and George Zucco. 58 minutes. Black and white. / ...
Pierlot, Ciel
(? - ) US digital artist and author whose first novel, Bluebird (2022), is an adventure-oriented Space Opera set in an interstellar arena; the mercenary protagonist (see Military SF) must save her twin sister, a mission which may involve the return of a hidden artefact or Weapon or secret, though this may be avoided through the aid of her ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. His first professional publication was a long sf-tinged poem, "Carcajou Lament" (Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959] Triquarterly); he only began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and sf proper with ...