A new research by Benjamin Radford concluded that the description given by the original eyewitness in Puerto Rico, Madelyne Tolentino, was based on the creature Sil in the science-fiction horror film Species.

In the mid-1970s, North Carolina teenager Sam Irvin published the horror / science-fiction fanzine Bizarre which included his original interviews with UK actors and filmmakers ; Irvin would later become a producer-director in his own right.

Although Infocom started out with Zork, and although the Zork world was the centerpiece of their product line throughout the Zork and Enchanter series, the company quickly branched out into a wide variety of story lines: fantasy, science-fiction, mystery, horror, historical adventure, children's stories, and others that defied categories.

He accepted the job of directing Alien, the 1979 horror / science-fiction film that would win him international success.

Critics saw the influence of the horror and science-fiction films of the 1950s in Romero's directorial style.

Patrick George Troughton ( 25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987 ) was an English actor most widely known for his roles in fantasy, science fiction and horror films, particularly in his role as the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which he played from 1966 to 1969, reappearing in 1973, 1983 and 1985.

The Day of the Triffids was cited by Karl Edward Wagner as one of the thirteen best science-fiction horror novels.

* Fritz Leiber, American author of fantasy, horror, and science-fiction

In either usage, most B movies represent a particular genre — the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple, while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in the 1950s.

At least two major films have been set in Nome, but not filmed there: the 1995 animated / live action family film Balto starring Kevin Bacon, and the 2009 science-fiction / horror film The Fourth Kind starring Milla Jovovich.

Put under contract by Universal Pictures Co. Inc., Chaney was cast in Man Made Monster ( 1941 ), a science-fiction horror thriller originally written with Karloff in mind.

In 1970 he began illustrating horror and science-fiction stories for Warren Publishing.

According to their website, Spectra publishes " science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative novels from recognizable authors " Spectra authors have collectively won 31 such awards in the fields of science fiction and fantasy, and been nominated on 132 occasions.

The 1999 Universal film The Mummy also suggests that it is a remake of the 1932 movie, and may be considered as such in that its titular character is Imhotep, resurrected from the dead by the Scroll of Thoth and out to find the present-day embodiment of the soul of his beloved Anck-su-namun, but develops there from a different story line, in common with most postmodern remakes of classic horror and science-fiction films.

While Ozzy Osbourne was the frontman of the band, Butler wrote almost all of the band's lyrics, drawing heavily upon his fascination with religion, science-fiction, fantasy and horror, and musings on the darker side of human nature that posed a constant threat of global annihilation.

* Prey ( 1977 film ), a low-budget British science-fiction horror film, directed by Norman J. Warren

Scanners is a 1981 science-fiction action horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O ' Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan.

* H. P. Lovecraft, science-fiction / horror author died from a combination of Bright's disease and intestinal cancer

With his feet in both the horror and science-fiction worlds, as well as outside the two popular genres, Combs enjoys a diverse and varied fanbase.

He contributed music to horror films: Ring, Ring 2, Dark Water, Japanese-Polish science-fiction film Avalon and the Hong Kong film Seven Swords.

The Fly is a 1958 American science-fiction horror film, directed by Kurt Neumann.

The Blob is an independently made 1958 American horror / science-fiction film that depicts a giant amoeba-like alien that came from outer space and terrorizes the small community of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

However, with the growing backlash against horror comics in the mid-1950s, as well as the advent of the Comics Code Authority and its restrictions on horror-themed storylines ( banning stories dealing with such supernatural fare as werewolves, vampires, and such ), the series quietly was revamped into dealing with science-fiction type monsters and other mystery-suspense type tales that were permitted by the comic code.

In 1955, he played the lead in the British science-fiction horror film The Quatermass Xperiment ( called The Creeping Unknown in the US ) for the Hammer Films company, playing the lead role of Professor Bernard Quatermass.

Reviews for The Andromeda Strain were overwhelmingly positive, and the novel was an American Bestseller, establishing Michael Crichton as a respected novelist and science-fiction writer.

* March 24-Jules Verne, famous novelist of fantasy stories and science-fiction, ( born 1828 )

For example, Trout's career as a science-fiction novelist is checkered with thieving publishers, and the fictional author is unaware of his readership.

* Dr. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal: science-fiction novelist, columnist, computer scientist, educator

The fragmented narrative style of the trilogy later influenced the work of British science-fiction novelist John Brunner.

* Chad Oliver ( 1928 – 1993 ), science-fiction novelist

* Shinichi Hoshi ( 星 ), Japanese novelist and science-fiction writer

The series was initially continued with two collaborative works that were more or less written concurrently: 1633 ( with best selling novelist David Weber ) and an anthology called Ring of Fire ( with other established science-fiction writers, including long " deep background " stories by both Weber and Flint ).

Gareth John Pritchard Roberts ( born 1968 ) is a British television screenwriter and novelist, best known for his work related to the science-fiction television series Doctor Who.

Instead of reviving the old character, Schwartz had writers Robert Kanigher and John Broome, penciler Carmine Infantino, and inker Joe Kubert create an entirely new super-speedster, updating and modernizing the Flash's civilian identity, costume, and origin with a science-fiction bent.

In John Ringo's " Council Wars " science-fiction series, characters with SCA or SCA-like experience help their society recover from a catastrophic loss of technology.

Two science-fiction novels – Genius Unlimited by John Rackham ( a pseudonym used by Phillifent ) and The Arsenal Out of Time by McDaniel – appear to be rewrites of " orphaned " U. N. C. L. E novel outlines or manuscripts.

Lewis's diverse sources for this work include the works of St. Augustine, Dante Aligheri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg and Lewis Carroll as well as the American science-fiction author whom Lewis mentions in his preface whose name he had forgotten.

WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham.

A poll of United States science-fiction writers, fans and critics for John Javna's 1987 book The Best of Science Fiction placed the series 25th in popularity, despite then only having recently begun to be broadcast in the US.

* John Henry, character in the science-fiction TV show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill.

John Carpenter's Starman is a 1984 science-fiction fantasy film directed by John Carpenter that tells the story of an alien ( Jeff Bridges ) who has come to Earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe.

The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, or Campbell Memorial Award for short, is a juried literary award that annually recognizes the " best science-fiction novel ... published in English during the previous calendar year.

Since then, he has gone on to play other science fiction roles, such as the alien supervillain Brainiac on the Superman-inspired series Smallville, the omnisexual time traveller Captain John Hart in British science-fiction show Torchwood and terrorist Barnabas Greeley in Syfy's Caprica.

Permutation City won the John W. Campbell Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year in 1995 and was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award that same year.

Avalon also had straight dramatic parts in the John Wayne historical western film The Alamo, as well as the science-fiction story Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ( 1961 ) with Barbara Eden.

Basing the humorous science-fiction detective on a real-life friend, John Buckley, Foglio " did a couple of those in the black-and-whites and then Donning said they wanted Buck Godot graphic novels ", two of which followed.

Ian Wallace was the pen name of science-fiction author John Wallace Pritchard ( 1912 – 1998 ).

Programmes he oversaw for the BBC included the soap opera EastEnders ; medical dramas Doctors ( which he co-created ), Casualty and the latter's spin-off series Holby City, which he created ; police dramas Dalziel and Pascoe, Waking the Dead and Merseybeat ; anthology shows The Afternoon Play and Murder in Mind ; legal drama Judge John Deed ; rural-set Down to Earth ; comedy-drama Being April and science-fiction series Doctor Who.

A famous Chigorin game played against Steinitz in 1892 is used as the base for the plot of The Squares of the City, a 1965 science-fiction novel by John Brunner.

John J. Sheridan is a lead character in the fictional universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5, played by Bruce Boxleitner.

This somewhat conventional science-fiction premise is something of a MacGuffin, as the novel's other major characters struggle to possess the Müller-Fokker tape in numerous subplots that satirize various prominent forces in 1970s America, including the military, evangelism, men's magazines, and radical anticommunist groups such as the John Birch Society.

As a youth, John Broome enjoyed reading science fiction, and began writing for science-fiction pulp magazines in the 1940s.

Some of the best-known productions screened in the strand included a new version of Nigel Kneale's 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1965 ); the four-part Talking to a Stranger by John Hopkins ( 1966 ) which told the same story from four different viewpoints, and starred Judi Dench ; and 1968's science-fiction allegory The Year of the Sex Olympics, again by Kneale.