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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 ...
Rowe, Rebecca
(1965- ) US author whose first novel, Forbidden Cargo (2006), energetically develops from a moderately complex premise: on a Terraformed Mars, illegal Genetic Engineering has created a group of modified humans known as the Imagofas, who cope better with the new worlds in view that unmodified Homo sapiens and who are therefore hunted down (see ...
Golan the Insatiable
US animated tv series (2013-2015). ADHD, Amazing Schlock, Double Hemm, Friends Night. Created by Josh Miller. Executive Producers include Hend Baghdady and Nick Weidenfeld. Directors include Douglas Einar Olsen. Writers include Pat Casey and Josh Miller. Voice cast includes Mary Mack, Josh Miller, Aubrey Plaza and Rob Riggle. Twelve 11-22 minute episodes. Colour. / Golan (Miller/Riggle), a horned, demonic "God-lord, commander of all that was seen and unseen" from the Gkruool ...
Gainax
Influential Japanese Anime studio founded in December 1984, also known as Studio Gainax or Kabushiki-gaisha Gainakkusu. / Japan's 1981 SF Convention, DAICON III, opened with a short animated film from DAICON Film, a studio founded by sf fans (see Fandom) from various Japanese universities – including Takami Akai, Hideaki Anno, Toshio Okada, Yasuhiro Takeda and Hiroyuki Yamaga. After gaining further ...
Crow, The
Film (1994). Miramax presents in association with Entertainment Media Investment Corporation an Edward R Pressman film in association with Jeff Most productions. Directed by Alex Proyas. Written by David J Schow and John Shirley, based on the first four issues of the Comic book series The Crow (February-May 1989) by James O'Barr. Cast includes Angel David, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, David Patrick Kelly, Brandon Lee, ...
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 (1966-1967), and later in ...