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Spaceman
UK Comic (1953-1954). 15 issues. Gould-Light Company. Art and scripts mainly by Ron Embleton and Norman Light. Usually three strips per issue. Cover in colour, strips in black and white. / Each issue featured one or two stories starring Captain Future (unrelated to the US Captain Future). The captain is a member of the Star Rovers Patrol, formed in 2020 (34 years after the first Moon landing), ...
Saward, Eric
(1944- ) UK Television scriptwriter, editor and author, mostly of his work being for the BBC, specifically as editor and writer for the Doctor Who series, beginning with Doctor Who and the Visitation (first presented 15-23 February 1982 in six parts as "The Visitation"). He was involved in a 1985 controversy over excess violence in the series, possibly occasioned by an insecure sense of the ...
Le Plongeon, Alice Dixon
(1851-1910) UK photographer, traveller, amateur archaeologist and author who, with her husband Augustus Le Plongeon (1826-1908), spent from 1873 to 1885 in Mexico and South America, photographing still-extant ruins (over 2000 negatives, held in various archives, have survived); and suggesting on a Eurocentric diffusionist model that the pre-Columbian civilizations of America were copies of the civilization of Atlantis. Her interest in ...
Dos Cosmonautas a la Fuerza
["Two Cosmonauts by Force"] Film (1965; vt 002 Operazione Luna). IMA Productions. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Written by José Luis Dibildos, Vittorio Metz, and Amedeo Sollazzo, based on a story by Vittorio Metz and Amedeo Sollazzo. Cast includes Enzo Andronico, Chiro Bermejo, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Ignazio Leone, Mónica Randall, Emilio Rodriguez, Elena Sedlak, María Silva and Linda Sini. 90 minutes. Black and white. / After two Russian cosmonauts, ...
Dream Hunter REM
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1985-1992; vt New Dream Hunter Rem). Original title Dorīmu Hantā Remu. Sai Enterprise, Zain. Directed by Seiji Okuda. Written by Seiji Okuda, Hiroki You and Yō Yūki. Voice cast includes Show Hayami, Shūichi Ikeda, Naoko Matsui and Tamio Ōki. Six short films of 21-58 minutes. Colour. / Teenager Ayanokouji Rem (Matsui), alias Dream Hunter Rem, is a private detective fighting ...
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 ...