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Serling, Rod
Working name of US screenwriter and Television producer Rodman Edward Serling (1924-1975), younger brother of Robert Serling, married to Carol Serling from 1948 until his death; best known for the Television series The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), for which he won three Hugos in 1960, 1961 ...
Timerider: The Adventures of Lyle Swann
Film (1983). Zoomo Productions/Jensen Farley Pictures. Directed by William Dear. Written by Dear, Michael Nesmith. Cast includes Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote, L Q Jones, Ed Lauter and Fred Ward. 92 minutes. Colour. / This Time-Travel Western prefigures the more successful Back to the Future Part III (1989) in its juxtaposition of twentieth-century technology and the generic conventions associated ...
"Griff"
A House Name of Modern Publications, used by John Russell Fearn on the sf novel Liquid Death (1953) and on non-sf works by F Dubrez Fawcett. [JC]
O'Neill, Scott
Pseudonym of Peg O'Neill Scott (1936- ) for the single sf collection Martian Sexpot (coll of linked stories 1963), a mildly comic romp which as indicated by the title features Sex (or the lure of sex) on Mars. Scott also wrote an unauthorized Tarzan adventure under her and her husband's House Name Barton Werper. ...
Walker, Karen Thompson
(1980- ) US creative writing instructor and author in whose first novel, the Young Adult The Age of Miracles (2012), a teenager awakens in a Near Future suburb to find that her inner turmoils are mirrored at a planetary level, with Earth slowing in orbit and Gravity suffering distortions, all of which puts her coming of age at risk. In Walker's second novel, ...
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 (1966-1967), and later in ...