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Corman, Roger
(1926-2024) US film-maker, a number of whose films are sf. Born in Los Angeles, he graduated in engineering from Stanford University in 1947, and spent a period in the US Navy and a term at Oxford University before going to Hollywood, where he began to write screenplays; his first sale was Highway Dragnet (1954), a picture he coproduced. He soon formed his own company and launched his spectacularly low-budget career. From 1956 he was regularly associated with ...
Flaming, Matthew
(? - ) US author of The Kingdom of Ohio (2009), an Alternate History tale set first in contemporary Los Angeles (see California) and then in a Steampunk-ish New York a century earlier, where a female mathematician, who has arrived there by Time Travel from an extinct independent ...
Haedicke, Paul
(1852-1903) German soldier and journalist who spent much of his career in the US, usually as a foreign correspondent for German papers; his sf novel, The Equalities of Para-Para, Written from the Dictations of George Rambler, M.D., F.R.G.S. (1895), set in a hidden, egalitarian Lost World in darkest Africa, is a Satire on the uniformitarian implications of a socialist Utopia whose egalitarianism ...
Mind Snatchers, The
Film (1972; vt The Happiness Cage; vt The Demon Within). International Film Ventures, Ltd. Directed by Bernard Girard. Written by Dennis Reardon and Ron Whyte, based on Reardon's play The Happiness Cage. Cast includes Joss Ackland, Ronny Cox, Ralph Meeker, Birthe Neumann and Christopher Walken. 94 minutes. Colour. / US Army private James H Reese (Walken) has an altercation with guests at a party given by his girlfriend Lisa (Neumann) which ultimately results in ...
Atom-Age Combat
US Comic (1952-1953). Five issues (but see below). St John Publishing Co. Artists include Bob Bean, Ben Brown, Howard Larsen, Ralph Mayo and Doug Wildey, also possibly Charles Sultan and George Tuska. 3-5 longer strips per issue, plus 1 or 2 briefer pieces (strips, text stories or jokes). They were a mixture of non-fantastic Korean War stories and sf tales. There was only one of the latter in #1, but by #5 three of the four strips were sf. / Each issue has the ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...