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Davis, Grania
(1943-2017) US author and editor, married to Avram Davidson from 1962 to 1964, who began publishing work of genre interest with "My Head's in a Different Place, Now" for Universe 2 (anth 1972) edited by Terry Carr. Much of her work consists of co-edited collections of Davidson's numerous uncollected or unpublished stories, and of collaborations with him, in particular ...
Running Man, The
Film (1987). Taft Entertainment/Keith Barish Productions. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser. Written by Steven E De Souza, based on The Running Man (1982) by Richard Bachman (Stephen King). Cast includes Maria Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson and Arnold Schwarzenegger. 101 minutes. Colour. / In a near-future, semi-totalitarian, economically crippled USA, a framed cop (Schwarzenegger) is forced to star in the top-rating television game show ...
Stellar Conquest
Board and counter Wargame (1974). Metagaming Concepts. Designed by Howard Thompson. / Stellar Conquest is perhaps the earliest precursor of the 4X Videogame form (see 4X Games); it inspired Reach for the Stars (1983), which was a major influence on such later games as Master of Orion (1993). Players take ...
Unearthly Stranger
Film (1963). A Julian Wintel-Leslie Parkyn Production, Independent Artists, American International Pictures. Directed by John Krish. Written by Rex Carlton. Cast includes Gabriella Licudi, Jean Marsh, Warren Mitchell, John Neville and Philip Stone. 74 minutes. Black and white. / In this low-key, unpretentious UK sf film a space Scientist gradually realizes that his wife (who sleeps with her eyes open) ...
He Ma
(? - ) Pseudonym of a reclusive Chinese entrepreneur and author of Pulp fiction whose Tibet Code series, presented in 75 chapters over ten volumes, has made him one of the wealthiest authors in China. Originally drafted as "The Last Temple", it was retitled by a publisher with a desire to recall the historical conspiracies of Dan Brown. Zangdi Mima "The Tibet ...
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 ...