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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Renard, Joseph
(1938-1997) US playwright and author whose sf has been restricted to The Monodyne Catastrophe (August 1970 Venture as "How We Won the Monodyne"; much exp 1977), in which Native Americans attempt to take over the eponymous Power Source. [JC]
Starforce
US letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine printed on a mix of newsprint and better-quality paper. Publisher: Reliance Publications. No editor named. At least 14 issues from October 1978 to October 1980. Publication schedule was bimonthly. / This title was yet another imitator of Starlog and similar publications which flooded US newsstands from the late 1970s into the early 1980s. It managed to survive longer than most, despite not ...
Rolling Stones, The
UK blues-rock band formed in 1962 which has enjoyed, to some degree, both celebrity and longevity. The group is led by vocalist Mick Jagger (1943- ) and guitarist Keith Richards (1943- ), who together write most of the group's songs; the long-time drummer, from 1963, was Charlie Watts (1941-2021). The Rolling Stones merit mention here primarily for the album Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967), an uncharacteristically psychedelic ...
Women of the Prehistoric Planet
US film (1966). Standard Club of California Productions. Directed and written by Arthur C Pierce. Cast includes Wendell Corey, Bob Ito, Keith Larsen and Irene Tsu. 87 minutes. Colour. / The Spaceships Cosmos One, Two and Three are returning to their home world after visiting Centaurus, some of whose inhabitants are passengers; but two of the Centaurians now hijack Cosmos Three and demand to be returned to Centaurus, ...
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 ...