Floating pseudonym or House Name used 1947-1958 by Ziff-Davis and by the other Chicago magazines Imagination and Imaginative Tales. Initially Tenneshaw was used by William Hamling as a personal pseudonym, many of the twenty-two sf stories whose authors have not been identified being perhaps by him; later it was used once by Randall Garrett alone, three times by him in collaboration with Robert Silverberg, once by Silverberg alone, once by Milton Lesser and once by Edmond Hamilton. [PN]"S M Tenneshaw"works Beyond the Walls of Space (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2018) [dos: authorship not established: first appeared November 1951 Amazing Stories: pb/Ed Swiatek]links Internet Speculati...
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Croatian sf in its infancy (especially after the nineties) is not very different from the East European fiction and we can compare it to the Russian school of fiction. In the early days of sf in Croatia, writers dealt with adventurous and utopian themes, but later their focus shifted more to existential and social issues, especially after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Croatian Patriotic war in the nineties; typically they now wrote about the life of the "little man" who is repressed by global trends of capitalism and injustice as a result of abrupt democratization on a state level. Only recently, after twenty-five years of democracy and the "rule of the people", have Croatian novels st...
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Radio drama series (1947-1954). CBS Radio network. Produced by Norman MacDonnell (1916-1979). Directors included MacDonnell and William N Robson (1906-1995). Writers included Les Crutchfield, John Dunkel, Antony Ellis, Kathleen Hite, John Meston and Robert Tallman. Announcers: William Conrad and Paul Frees, often with Roy Rowan as a secondary announcer/narrator. 228 30-minute episodes.
Escape was primarily an adventure-mystery programme, but included much sf, Fantasy, and Horror among its offerings. Genre authors who had stories adapted for the series included Nelson S Bond, Algernon Blackwood, Ray Bradbury, H Rider Haggard, Edgar Allan Poe and – several times – H G Wells. Some examples of...
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A minor Cliché recurring not only in science fiction itself but also in public perceptions of sf and Futures Studies. The eminent French chemist Marcelin Berthelot (1827-1907) laid the groundwork in his essay "Foods in the Year 2000" (1894 McClure's), boldly predicting that agriculture would be entirely superseded by synthetic food manufacture. The notion of sustaining life through concentrated food likewise precedes both the space programme and Genre SF: early examples are the austerely anonymous "pastes and cakes" consumed in H G Wells's "A Story of the Days to Come" (June-October 1899 Pall Mall Magazine), and actual meal pills – "a small pellet which contained highly nutritious food" – in...
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