Working name of William Bond Warren (1943- ), sf fan and film buff, author with Allan Rothstein of the Recursive SF murder mystery Fandom is a Way of Death (1984 chap), set in and distributed at the 1984 Worldcon in Los Angeles, and featuring many fan characters including Forrest J Ackerman. Warren's extraordinarily useful and interesting film reference books, the most detailed and accurate available for the period, are Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties: Volume I: 1950-57 (1982) and Volume II: 1958-62 (1986), on both of which he was assisted in research by Bill Thomas. They are not, despite the title, restricted to US films, but include many foreign films released in the US (> Cinema). Warren has also written some sf and fantasy, starting with "Death is a Lonely Place" in Worlds of Fantasy (1968 #1). With Elton T Elliott he wrote a short-lived 1979 news column for Galaxy, "Science Fiction Hotline" (two instalments only, June/July and September/October 1979). [PN/DRL]
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