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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Maynard, Richard
(1926- ) UK-born author, resident in Australia, whose The Coconut Book (1985), about a man stranded on an Island, is of some interest. The Quiet Place (1988; vt The Return 1988) rather overcomplicatedly describes the long hegira of a group of astronauts who, due to time dilation (see Relativity), find a Ruined Earth landscape on their ...
Trowbridge, Dave
(1950- ) US computer magazine writer/editor and author, married to Deborah J Ross, whose novel-length sf was invariably written in collaboration with Sherwood Smith. All titles belong to and comprise the Exordium series of Space Operas: The Phoenix in Flight (1993; rev 2011 ebook), Ruler of Naught (1993; rev 2011 ebook), ...
Zeta One
UK film (1969; vt The Love Slaves; vt Alien Women; vt The Love Factor). Tigon British Film Productions. Directed by Michael Cort. Written by Cort and Alistair McKenzie. Cast includes Dawn Addams, Anna Gaël, Robin Hawdon, Charles Hawtrey, James Robertson Justice, Wendy Lingham and Yutte Stensgaard. 86 minutes. Colour. / Spy James Word (Hawdon) seduces (or is seduced by) his boss's secretary, Ann Olsen (Stensgaard), and reveals to her the secret of the ...
NOW Comics
US Comics publisher active from 1985 to 2005, also variously known as NOW Entertainment Corporation and NOW Media Group Incorporated. Founded by Tony C Caputo. / An independent publisher which was successful for some years, NOW Comics published many licensed titles based on such genre properties as the films Ghostbusters (1984) and Fright Night (1985), and the Television series The ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star ...