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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 ...
Marshall, James Scott
(? -? ) US author of a Utopia, The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation: by Iros Urides (a Martian) Written Down and Edited by J L Kennon (1922) as by Iros Urides [see also Checklist below], which in lightly fictionalized terms describes an ideal society on Mars, with advanced Technology and Transportation ...
Sterling, Brett
A House Name of Better Publications, used originally in the magazines Startling Stories and Captain Future for five short Captain Future novels, three of which – "The Star of Dread" (Captain Future 1943), "Magic Moon" (Captain Future 1944) and "Red Sun of Danger" ( ...
Terence X. O'Leary's War Birds
US Pulp magazine, three issues, #84-#86, March, April and May/June 1935, published by Dell, New York; edited by Carson Mowre. This was an attempt to salvage the ailing air-war pulp War Birds, which had started in March 1928, by pitching the aviator hero, O'Leary, against the Ageless Men, malign immortals from Atlantis with Death Rays, intent on ruling the world. Though extremely rare collector's items, ...
She Creature, The
Film (1956; vt The She-Creature). Golden State Productions, American International Pictures. Produced by Alex Gordon. Directed by Edward L Cahn. Written by Lou Rusoff from a story by Rusoff based on an original idea by Jerry Zigmund. Cast includes Paul Blaisdell (uncredited), Tom Conway, Marla English, Lance Fuller, Chester Morris and Ron Randell. 77 minutes. Black and white. / Unscrupulous ...
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 ...