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Human Vapour, The
Japanese film (1960). Original title Gasu Ningen Daiichigō. Toho. Directed by Ishirō Honda. Written by Takeshi Kimura. Cast includes Tatsuya Mihashi, Fuyuki Murakami, Keiko Sata, Yoshio Tsuchiya and Kaoru Yachigusa. 91 minutes. Colour. / A car chase following a bank robbery ends with the criminal's vehicle going off the road and crashing: the police find the car empty, yet no footprints nearby. When another bank is robbed the metal gate ...
de Graeff, Allen
Pseudonym of Albert Paul Blaustein (1921-1994), professor of law at Rutgers from 1955, who as De Graeff edited Human, and Other Beings (anth 1963) with Groff Conklin. Blaustein also edited without credit three anthologies with his friend Basil Davenport [see Checklist]. [PN]
Duncan, Andy
(1964- ) US author who was a graduate of the 1994 Clarion West workshop (see Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop) and began to publish work of genre interest with "Liza and the Crazy Water Man" in Starlight 1 (anth 1996) edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden; this is assembled with other early work in Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (coll ...
Boyer, Robert H
(1937- ) US teacher of English, editor and bibliographer who began to publish work of genre interest with the well-received Fantasy reprint Anthology The Fantastic Imagination (anth 1977; vt The Fantastic Imagination: An Anthology of High Fantasy 1977) edited with Kenneth J Zahorski, which besides standalone tales by James Branch ...
Jones, Neil
(? - ) UK editor of two Warhammer 40,000 Ties: Warhammer 40,000: Deathwing (anth 1990; exp 2001) with David Pringle and Warhammer: The Laughter of Dark Gods (anth 2002) with David Pringle. [JC]
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 ...