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Chile
This entry provides an overview of Chilean sf during its early, classic and contemporary periods. / The Initial Phase (late-1800s to late-1950s) / In Chile, as in much of Latin America, scientific fiction imported from Europe and North America inspired local authors to apply the genre's themes and tropes to a regional or national context. By the late 1950s, Chilean authors had published some thirty works of sf, and although these texts appeared ...
Pulp
In discussions of popular literature, as in this volume, the term "pulp" is used metaphorically as often as specifically, and when used specifically it has both a narrow and a wide sense. / 1. "Pulp" is used in this encyclopedia as an indication of format, in contrast to Letter Size (see Bedsheet) and Digest. The pulp magazine normally measured 10 x 7 in (about 254 x 178 mm); where the word "pulp" is used with no other ...
Mills, Elliott E
(1881-1956) UK educationist and author Elliott Evans Mills, whose The Decline and Fall of the British Empire [for subtitle see Checklist] (1905 chap), published anonymously, is a Future History described as being designated for use in the National Schools of Japan in 2005 (see Ruins and Futurity), with Japan's Invasion of Britain on ...
Atkinson-Keen, Susan
(? - ) Canadian geologist and author of Adventures of Broughton Bear sequence for younger children; her Young Adult Time Travel novel, Weekend in the Jurassic (1989), features Dinosaurs. [JC]
Heaven's Design Team
Japanese animated tv series (2021). Original title Tenchi Sōzō Dezain-bu. Based on the Manga by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki and Tarako. Asahi Production. Directed by Sōichi Masui. Written by Michiko Yokote. Voice cast includes Junya Enoki, Yumi Hara, Kazuhiko Inoue, Daisuke Kishio, Naomi Ōzora, Junichi Suwabe, Naoki Tatsuta, Ryota Takeuchi, Asuna Tomari and Yūichirō Umehara. Thirteen 24-minute episodes. ...
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 ...