Richard Langford was a Welsh Anglican priest in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Langford was born in Llanfwrog, Denbighshire and educated at St Alban Hall, Oxford. He held livings at Penmorfa, Bosbury, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Goodrich.
The Glamour is a novel by Christopher Priest published in 1984.
Christopher Mackenzie Priest (14 July 1943 – 2 February 2024) was a British science fiction writer and novelist. His works include Fugue for a Darkening Island (1972), The Inverted World (1974), The Space Machine (1976), The Affirmation (1981), The...
Larry Paul Langford (March 18, 1946 – January 8, 2019) was an American politician and convicted felon who had a one-term tenure as the mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama. At the time of his death, Langford was hospitalized on compassionate...
Oswyn Robert Tregonwell Hay (17 October 1922 – 3 October 1997), better known by his working name George Hay, was a British science fiction author, editor, and critic. He is notable as a co-founder of the Science Fiction Foundation. He was a...
The year 2002 was marked, in science fiction, by the following:
James Joseph Martin Jr. (born December 29, 1960) is an American Jesuit priest, writer, editor-at-large of America magazine, and the founder of Outreach. Pope Francis appointed Martin as a consultant to the Secretariat for Communications at the...
The Prestige is a 1995 science fiction novel by Christopher Priest. It tells the story of a prolonged feud between two stage magicians in late 1800s England. Its main structure is that of a collection of diaries that were kept by the protagonists...
Richard de Belmeis I (or de Beaumais) (died 1127) was a medieval cleric, administrator, judge and politician. Beginning as a minor landowner and steward in Shropshire, he became Henry I's chief agent in the Welsh Marches and in 1108 was appointed...