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Wurlitzer, Rudolph
(1937- ) US screenwriter and author, much of whose film work has been signed Rudy Wurlitzer; he is probably best known for early scripts for films like Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) or Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), though his first works were novels, most of which may be read as Fabulations in which sf elements are bleakly Equipoisal with a free-floating on-the-road gonzo ...
Holsinger, Bruce
(? - ) US academic, specializing in medieval manuscripts, and author who, after nonfiction studies like Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (2001), began publishing fiction with the John Gower sequence of fantasticated historical detections. The first volume, A Burnable Book (2014), features the historical poet John Gower (1330-1408) in a quest for a mysterious manuscript whose contents contain accurate ...
Jones, Neil R
(1909-1988) US author who until his retirement in 1973 worked as a New York State unemployment insurance claims investigator. His first published story, "The Death's Head Meteor" (it was the first English-language sf story to use the word "astronaut") in Air Wonder Stories for January 1930, shares with almost all his fiction a very generalized Future History common background – one of the earliest seen in US ...
Breukelaar, J S
(? - ) US-born teacher and author, in Australia from early adulthood; she began to publish work of genre interest with "Union Falls" in Fantasy Magazine for July 2011, soon becoming recognized for her adroit use of Horror in SF topoi. Collision (coll 2019) presents a gamut of her short work, which is also characterized by a forthright use of the materials of Fantastika ...
Conquest of Space
Film (1955). Paramount. Produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin. Written by James O'Hanlon and others including Barré Lyndon (see Alfred Edgar); based remotely on Das Marsprojekt (1952 Weltraumfahrt; 1952; trans Henry J White as The Mars Project 1953) by Wernher von Braun. Cast includes Walter Brooke, ...
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 ...