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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Schweitzer, Darrell
(1952- ) US critic, editor, bookseller and author who was early active in sf Fandom, publishing some amateur fiction, though his first professional story of genre interest was "Come to Mother" for Weirdbook #4 in 1971, but who has spent his energies very variously for many years, coming initially to notice with a series of critical studies [they are broken down in the Checklist below] including Lovecraft in the Cinema (1975 ...
Ordinary Joe
US tv series (2021-2022). Production companies included 3 Arts Entertainment, Friend and Lerner Productions and Universal Television for NBC. Created by Russel Friend, Gerrett Lerner and Caleb Ransom. Executive producers include Rafi Crohn, Russel Friend and Adam Kassan. Directors include Shaz Bennett, Adam Davidson and Chris Koch. Writers include Sylvia Batey Alcala, Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner. Cast includes Elizabeth Lail, Natalie Martinez, Eric Payne, Adam Rodriguez and James ...
A.LI.CE
Japanese animated film (2000). GAGA Communications Inc., Chūō Aitoz. Directed by Kenichi Maejima. Written by Masahiro Yoshimoto. Voice cast includes Ryō Horikawa, Mariko Kouda, Yūko Miyamura, Kaori Shimizu, Chihiro Suzuki and Fumihiko Tachiki. 85 minutes. Colour. / The film opens with teenager Alice Hayashi (Shimizu) and Maria (Kouda), a Robot waitress, pursued across the snows of Lapland by ...
Gann, Ernest K
(1910-1991) US author, usually of thrillers, whose Brain 2000 (1980) is an sf spoof on Ecology, in which the extraction of oil from parts of the world causes gravitational and orbital disturbances. A smart child (see Children in SF) solves all our problems. [JC]
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 ...