Buckner, Robert
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Film.
(1906-1989) US journalist, screenwriter, producer and author of one sf novel, Starfire (19 March-2 April 1960 Saturday Evening Post as "Moon Pilot"; 1960; vt Moon Pilot 1962). This deals with the misadventures of a US astronaut scheduled for the first ever manned Space Flight to the Moon; it was filmed by Disney as Moon Pilot (1962), which see. [DRL]
Robert Buckner
born Crewe, Virginia: 28 May 1906
died San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: August 1989
works
- Starfire (New York: Permabooks, 1960) [first appeared 19 March-2 April 1960 Saturday Evening Post as "Moon Pilot": pb/]
- Moon Pilot (New York: Permabooks, 1962) [vt of the above as tie to the film Moon Pilot: pb/]
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