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Boey, Eliane
(? - ) Singapore author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Forgotten" in Clarkesworld for July 2022. Much of her work shares a loose Near Future common background, including the two novellas assembled as Other Minds (coll 2023): in the Cyberpunk-inflected Hard-Sf "Other Minds", an ...
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Japanese animated film (2011; vt Journey to Agartha). Original title Hoshi o Ou Kodomo. CoMix Wave Films. Directed and written by Makoto Shinkai. Voice cast includes Kazuhiko Inoue, Miyu Irino and Hisako Kanemoto. 116 minutes. Colour. / Young Asuna Watase (Kanemoto), raised by her widowed and busy mother, often goes to the nearby mountains to listen to the sounds on her crystal radio. She's rescued from a ...
Taylor, Bert Leston
(1866-1921) US editor, columnist, poet and author, some of whose tales move into the fantastic, but usually to spoof targets of his mild Satire. He is most famous for his A Line o' Type or Two column for the Chicago Tribune from 1901 until his death. Of his short fiction, "The Caves of Fire" (May 1898 Black Cat) with Edward Ward describes the Invention of an electrical device which, passed through glass, is capable of ...
Casey, Patrick
(1892-1941) US author, mostly of adventure stories, sometimes with genre shadings, as in "The Island of Lost Ones" (December 1936-?? 1937 Mystery Adventures). With his brother, Terence Casey (1895-1945), he wrote a Lost Race novel, The Strange Story of William Hyde (December 1915-March 1916 Adventure Magazine; 1916), featuring female descendants of the Khans; the explorer protagonist falls in love with the queen of the lost ...
Trigger
One of the most important Japanese animation studios of the early twenty-first century, Studio Trigger (also known as Kabushiki-gaisha Torigā, Trigger Inc. or simply Trigger) was founded in 2011 by two former Gainax employees, Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ōtsuka: other Gainax staff also joined the company. Previously, Imaishi had worked as an animator on Shinseiki Evangelion ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...