WARREN, Bill

   Working name of William Bond Warren (1943-), sf fan and film buff, author with Allan Rothstein of the RECURSIVE SF murder mystery Fandom is a Way of Death (1984 chap), set in and distributed at a World SF CONVENTIONin Los Angeles. BW's extraordinarily useful and interesting film reference books, the most detailed and accurate available for the period, are Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties:Volume I: 1950-57 (1982) and Volume II: 1958-62 (1986), on both of which he was assisted in research by Bill Thomas. They are not, despite the title, restricted to US films, but include many foreign films released in the US (CINEMA). BW has also written some sf and fantasy, starting with "Death is a Lonely Place" in Worlds of Fantasy \#1 (1968).

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