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Titles of organizations, magazines, etc., which begin "SF", meaning "science fiction", are listed as if that phrase were spelt out in full. [JC/PN]
Summer Camp Island
US animated tv series (2018-2023). Cartoon Network. Creator and executive producer: Julia Pott. Writers include Leah Beckmann, Emma Fletcher, Sarah Lloyd, Kent Osborne, Jack Pendarvis and Julia Pott. Art direction by Sandra Lee. Voice cast includes Whoopi Goldberg, Faye Larkin, Oona Laurence, Ethan Maher, Julia Pott and Elliott Smith. 120 eleven-minute episodes to date (plus the pilot). Colour. / Summer Camp Island transforms once the parents depart: the ...
Huxley, Aldous
(1894-1963) UK man of letters and author, younger brother of Julian Huxley; his fame came early, in the 1920s, a decade which his work captured with precision, conveying an overwhelming sense of the psychic aftermath of World War One; most of his best fiction, such as Antic Hay (1923) and Point Counter Point (1928), was written then. From 1937 he lived in America, a residency which survived ...
Pilkington, Ace G
(1951-2019) US academic – professor of English and history at Dixie State University, St George, Utah – and sf poet and critic who began to publish work of genre interest with the poem "One Translation of Odysseus" in Amazing Stories for July 1986; several further poems appeared in later issues of this magazine and in such venues as Asimov's and Weird Tales. Pilkington's critical works are ...
Dalcher, Christina
(?1968- ) US theoretical linguist and author whose first novel Vox (2018) intensifies (if possible) the Dystopian nightmare of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985) through the depiction of a Near Future America where females are allowed to speak only 100 words a day; the penalties for disobedience are sadistic (see ...
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 ...