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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Boy and His Dog, A
Film (1975). LQJaf Productions. Directed by L Q Jones. Written by Jones and Moore, based on "A Boy and His Dog" (April 1969 New Worlds) by Harlan Ellison, who began but found himself unable to complete the script. Cast includes Susanne Benton, Don Johnson, Tim McIntire (as the dog's voice), Alvy Moore and Jason Robards. 91 minutes. Colour. / Set in 2024 CE, Post-Holocaust, this ...
Desfontaines, Pierre François Guyot
(1685-1745) French Jesuit, who left the order in 1715; critic, controversialist, translator and author; he is now remembered primarily for his quarrels with Voltaire. After translating Jonathan Swift's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships (1726 4vols) in 1727, he published ...
Cameron, J D
A House Name used by the publishing and book packaging firm BPVP (see Byron Preiss) for the Omega Sub sequence of Post-Holocaust military-sf adventures about the crew of a nuclear sub which survives World War Three, beginning with Omega Sub #1: Omega Sub (1991) by Mike Jahn and ending with Omega Sub #6: Raven Rising (1992) by ...
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1992-1993; original title Bannō Bunka Nekomusume). Animate Film. Directed by Yoshio Ishiwata. Written by Yuzo Takada, based on the Manga by Yuzo Takada. Voice cast includes Megumi Hayashibara, Akiko Hiramatsu, Aya Hisakawa, Kazue Ikura, Akira Kamiya, Mika Kanai and Saeko Shimaz. Six 28-minute episodes. Colour. / One Christmas, on discovering the ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...