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Verhoeven, Paul
(1938- ) Dutch filmmaker whose long career began in 1960 when he was still a student in Leiden, where he studied to Master's level in mathematics and physics. He refined his craft through the sixties, particularly in a documentary produced during his national service and on the iconic Dutch television series Floris (1968), where he made a star of the young Rutger Hauer. In the seventies he emerged as a major, if notorious, director of provocative ...
Gamer
Film (2009). Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment presents. Written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Cast includes Gerard Butler, Terry Crews, Michael C Hall, John Leguizamo, Logan Lerman, Alison Lohman, Ludacris, Kyra Sedgwick, Amber Valletta and Aaron Yoo. Colour. 94 minutes. / Death-row Prison inmate John "Kable" Tillman (Butler) murders his way through the real-life cast of the ...
Meredith, James Creed
(1875-1942) Irish judge, a Protestant who was an early supporter of Sinn Féin; as an author, he focused usually on philosophical subjects, and carried that interest into fiction in The Rainbow in the Valley (1939), which features scientists in western China who establish Communications with Mars, giving Meredith the chance discursively to compare and contrast the two civilizations in terms of their attaining ...
Willis, Connie
Working name of US teacher and author Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (1945- ). She began publishing sf with "Santa Titicaca" for Worlds of Fantasy (Winter 1970/1971 #3), but appeared only intermittently in the field until the early 1980s, when she became a full-time author, winning several awards almost immediately. Most of her best work of the 1980s was in short-story form; her first book, Fire Watch (coll 1985; cut ...
O'Guilin, Peadar
Working name of Irish author Peadar Ó Guilín (1968- ), who began to publish work of genre interest with "Charly's Ark" in Albedo One for Summer 1994; much of his short work was assembled as Forever in the Memory of God and Other Stories (coll 2014). O'Guilin's first series, the Young Adult Bone World Trilogy beginning with The Inferior (2007), is located in what ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...