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May, Peter
(1951-2026) Scottish journalist, screenwriter and author, active from around 1970; resident in France from around 2000. During the first twenty-five years of his career as a screenwriter, he was involved in something like 1,000 television productions, all seemingly nonfantastic. He began to publish fiction with The Reporter (1978), which he serialized for the BBC; most of his later novels were crime thrillers, including the China Thrillers beginning with ...
Flying Serpent, The
Film (1946; vt Killer with Wings). Producer's Releasing Corporation. Directed by Sam Newfield (credited as Sherman Scott). Produced by Sigmund Neufeld. Written by John T Neville from his original story. Cast includes Eddie Acuff, Hope Kramer, Ralph Lewis, James Metcalfe and George Zucco. 59 minutes. Black and white. / Demented archaeologist Professor Andrew Forbes (Zucco) has made two unlikely discoveries near San Juan, New Mexico. The first is that the Aztec Empire stretched ...
Summer Hikaru Died, The
Japanese animated tv series (2025-current; original title Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu). Cygames Pictures. Based on the Manga by Mokumokuren. Directed and written by Ryōhei Takeshita. Voice cast includes Yumiri Hanamori, Chiaki Kobayashi, Chikahiro Kobayashi, Wakana Kowaka and Shūichirō Umeda. Twelve 23-minute episodes to date. Colour. / The god (see Gods and Demons) Nonuki-sama ...
Tales of Horror
US Comic (1952-1954). Minoan Publishing Corp/Toby Press Inc. 13 issues. Artists include Ben Brown, Max Elkin, Myron Fass, Mel Keefer, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Jack Sparling. Script writers include Art Helfant. 36 pages per issue, usually with four long strips and a short text story (though these are absent in some of the early issues), plus short strips as filler. / Though this is a Horror comic, sf and ...
Saunders, George
(1958- ) US engineer and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Offloading for Mrs Schwartz" in The New Yorker (see Slick) for 5 October 1992, the first of more than twenty stories he has published in that journal. No traces of his earlier interest in Objectivism (see Ayn Rand) are easily found in his fiction, whose Satirical take on late capitalist consumerism ...
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 ...