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Morohoshi Daijirō
(1949- ) Japanese artist, primarily of Manga, who rose to prominence in the 1970s as a proponent of avant-garde Graphic Novels dealing with sf, doubtful accounts of ancient history, and Slipstream works. After his debut work "Junko, Kyōkatsu" ["Junko, Blackmail"] (1970 COM) appeared in Osamu Tezuka's ...
Strange World of Your Dreams, The
US Comic (1952-1953). 4 issues. Headline Publications Inc. "Produced by Simon & Kirby. Morton Meskin Associate Editor." Artists include Jack Kirby, Bob McCarthy, Mort Meskin, Ben Oda and Joe Simon. Scriptwriters include Jack Kirby and Jack Oleck. 36 pages. Each issue would have 2-3 "Richard Temple" dream analysis features, as well as 2-3 other strips and 2 short text stories; #3 also had one-page on "How the Stars Affect Your Job", ...
Tibbles, Thomas Henry
(1840-1928) US advocate of Native American rights and author who is of sf interest for a Utopia, The American Peasant: A Timely Allegory (1892) with Elia Wilkinson Peattie writing as Another [see her entry for details]. His connection with Peattie may have originated in their mutual condemnation of the massacre of Native Americans at Wounded Knee on 29 December 1890, to which he was a witness. [JC]
Dain, Alex
Pseudonym of US therapist and author Alex Lukeman (1941- ), who has published under his own name several books on the nature of dreams and the ongoing thriller series The Project [not listed below], which relates the exploits of the eponymous secret US counter-terrorism unit, beginning with White Jade (2011). Lukeman used the Alex Dain byline for his first novel only: The Bane of Kanthos (1969 dos), which is ...
Steamboy
Japanese animated film (2004). Bandai Visual, Studio 4 degrees C, Steamboy Committee. Directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo. Written by Sadayuki Murai and Katsuhiro Ōtomo. Cast includes Kiyoshi Kodama, Manami Konishi, Katsuo Nakamura, Ann Suzuki and Masane Tsukayama. 126 minutes (also cut at 103 minutes). Colour. / Ponderous Steampunk caper in which a family of inventors trap super-heated, ...
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 ...