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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Full Throttle
Videogame (1996). LucasArts. Designed by Tim Schafer. Platforms: DOS (1995); Mac (1996); Win (2002). / Full Throttle is a graphical Adventure game with a point and click interface, set in a dark future somewhat reminiscent of Car Wars (1982). The gameplay is a prototype of the approach used in later action Adventures such as ...
Rōjin Z
Animated film (1991 Japan; vt Roujin Z, 1994 UK). Movic, Sony Music Entertainment, The Television, Tokyo Theatres, TV Asahi. Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. Written by Katsuhiro Ōtomo. Cast includes Shinsuke Chikaishi, Hikojirō Matsumura, Shinji Ogawa and Chisa Yokoyama. 80 minutes. Colour. / Amid the high expectations engendered by the success of Akira (1988), Katsuhiro Ōtomo restricted ...
Lost Continent
Film (1951). Sigmund Neufeld Productions. Distributed by Lippert Pictures. Directed by Sam Newfield. Written by Richard H Landau, and (uncredited) Orville H Hampton, from a story by Carroll Young. Cast includes Acquanetta, Whit Bissell, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler, John Hoyt and Cesar Romero. 83 minutes. Black and white with tinted green sequences. / Major Joe Nolan (Romero) leads a team of Scientists including Dr Stanley Briggs (Bissell) on a ...
House, Brant
House Name associated with the magazine Secret Agent "X" (which see for fuller details). The Secret Agent "X" character was created by Paul Chadwick, who wrote many of the long lead stories by whose titles the issues are traditionally distinguished; another prolific contributor, also as House, was G T Fleming-Roberts (1910-1968). Seven of these title stories, mostly by Chadwick, were reissued ...
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 ...