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Wasei King Kong
["Japanese King Kong"] Japanese film (1933). Shōchiku. Directed by Torajirō Saitō. Written by Akira Fushimi. Cast includes Hiroko Koizumi, Kotarō Sekiguchi, Nagamasa Yamada and Isamu Yamaguchi. Circa 35 minutes. Black and white. / Jobless ne'er-do-wells Kōichi (Yamada) and Santa (Yamaguchi) find a lucrative new side-show business, recreating the recent movie King Kong (1933) onstage with ...
Kitasei, Yume
(1987- ) US management consultant for New York government and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Super" in Metaphorosis for October 2019. Her first novel, The Deep Sky (2023), is a Space Opera set primarily on a Generation Starship carrying an elite corps of humans (see Eugenics) away from an Earth ...
Rose, Malcolm
(1953- ) UK chemist and author of Young Adult fiction who may be best known for the Lawless and Tilley series of crime novels (not listed below) which, although the investigators are scientifically literate, is not sf. His first novels, which tend to focus on various Disasters, are of genre interest: The Obtuse Experiment (1993) is a thriller set in the ...
Rocketman
US Comic (1952). One issue. Farrell Comics Inc. Artists include the Iger Shop, Henry Kiefer and Charles Quinlan Jr. 36 pages: four long strips (three featuring Rocketman), two short humorous strips and a two-page text story. This comic is an interesting example of a publisher reworking older material: except for the cover and perhaps the text story, the contents are refurbished from 1940s comics (discussed below). / Rocketman is "a young, American space pilot ...
Gibbins, David
(1962- ) Canadian archaeologist and author, partly resident in the UK, of whose novels Atlantis (2005) is of sf interest, as the rediscovered Atlantis proves to contain secrets of ancient science of planetary importance, and likely to cause a Holocaust, a threat dealt with in The Last Gospel (2008) and The Gods of Atlantis (2011). ...
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 ...