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Austen, Catherine
(1965- ) Canadian author, almost exclusively for younger readers and the Young Adult audience, most of her work being nonfantastic; the time machine in Walking Backwards (2009) is a delusion on the part of the protagonist's grieving father. Of sf interest is All Good Children (2011), set in a Dystopian Near Future world ...
Hurd, Gale Anne
(1955- ) US film producer who cut her teeth on Roger Corman's New World Pictures' exploitation movies; she was production manager on Battle beyond the Stars (1980) and coproduced the car-chase movie Smokey Bites the Dust (1981) with Corman. She came to prominence with the excellent low-budget independent film The Terminator ...
Leave the World Behind
US film (2023). Esmail Corp, Red Om Productions, Higher Ground Productions. Directed and written by Sam Esmail, based on Leave the World Behind (2020) by Rumaan Alam. Cast includes Mahershala Ali, Vanessa Aspillaga, Kevin Bacon, Charlie Evans, Ethan Hawke, Farrah Mackenzie, Myha'la and Julia Roberts. 141 minutes. Colour. / In a remote rental vacation property on Long Island, New York, the Sandford family are ...
Collectibles
The tangible objects associated with sf that are sought by collectors fall into three categories. First are authentic artefacts from the genre's past, such as old pulp Magazines, Fanzines, Comic books, rare books, manuscripts, original cover paintings (see Illustration), vintage Toys, and film props, costumes, screenplays, animation cells, posters, and ...
Droid [2]
Also known as "{species}droid" and "{species}DROID". US electro-funk band, whose debut release The Systematik Eviloution of {species}DROID (2005) mashes genre topics into an eclectic musical hybrid of contemporary dance styles. The name is presumably based on the sf coinage Droid as popularized in Star Wars (1977). [AR]
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 ...