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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 ...
Adjei-Bremyah, Nana Kwame
(1991- ) US author who – after some nonfantastic work – began to publish work of genre interest with "The Finkelstein 5" in Printer's Row for July 2016. This and several other early stories, all intensely written and mostly set in surrealized Near Future venues, were assembled as Friday Black (coll 2018); the cruel arenas, and the dramas unfolded within them, sustainedly represent an understanding of America ...
O'Neill, Gerard K
(1927-1992) US physicist, at Princeton University from 1954 until his death, whose popular-science book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (1977) argues strongly for the construction of Space Habitats, either in Earth orbit or at one of the stable Lagrange Points of our Earth/Moon system – especially L5. His arguments aroused great interest among would-be space colonists, and were influential in ...
Janvier, Thomas A
(1849-1913) US journalist and author, whose Lost Worlds novel, The Aztec Treasure House: A Romance of Contemporaneous Antiquity (1890), didactically describes a surviving remnant of the Aztec empire. In The Women's Conquest of New York [for subtitle see Checklist] (dated 1953 but 1894 chap) as by A Member of the Committee of Safety of 1908, Tammany Hall misguidedly enfranchises females, who run amok in ...
Fisher, David
(1929-2018) UK author and screenwriter who scripted four Doctor Who storylines: The Stones of Blood (28 October-18 November 1978), The Androids of Tara (25 November-16 December 1978), The Creature from the Pit (27 October-17 November 1979) and The Leisure Hive (30 August-20 September 1980), plus an unfinished script much reworked by Douglas Adams and Graham Williams as City of Death (29 September-20 ...
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 ...