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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 ...
Hall, Chloe
Pseudonym of US computer scientist and author Maureen Caudill (1951- ) who has published under her own name nonfiction on AI developments and psychic issues, along with nonfantastic romances. She is of sf interest for Ariel's Dance (1998), a romantic Space Opera whose protagonist, a negotiator between two contrasting planets, attempts to recover a lost heirloom while falling in love. [JC]
Zagat, Arthur Leo
(1896-1949) US author, extremely prolific in a number of Pulp-magazine genres, publishing about 500 stories, some (excruciatingly) as by Morgan Lafay; of the relatively few that are sf, several were with Nat Schachner, including Zagat's first, "The Tower of Evil" in Wonder Stories Quarterly for Summer 1930. The eleven tales produced collaboratively before they separated in 1931 were Zagat's ...
Parkman, Sydney
(1895-1995) UK author, usually of adventure fiction, but including two humorous sf tales: Ship Ashore (1936), in which the descendants of a seventeenth-century shipwreck are found on a mysterious Island off the coast of Borneo, and Life Begins Tomorrow (1947), the latter set in the Near Future. [JC]
Oneamisu no Tsubasa
["The Wings of Honneamise"] Japanese animated film (1987). Gainax, Bandai Visual, Tōhō Tōwa. Directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga. Written by Hiroyuki Yamaga. Cast includes Leo Morimoto and Mitsuki Yayoi. 119 minutes. Colour. / Shirotsugh Lhadatt (Morimoto) is a hapless, directionless youth who becomes one of the test subjects in his kingdom's rickety, underfunded space programme. A dead-end propaganda exercise by a ...
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 ...