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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 ...
Green Mask, The
US Comic (1940-1946). Fox Publications, Inc. 17 issues numbered #1-#11, then vol 2 #1 to vol 2 #6. Artists include E C Stoner and Al Zere. Scriptwriters include Will Eisner. Initially 68 pages, down to 36 by end of run. Initially 6-8 long strips and a short text story per issue, down to 3-5 long strips and a short text story for the shorter issues; also occasional short filler pieces. #1 was entirely made up of Green Mask tales ...
Noble, William
(? -? ) UK author of Consternation in Mars: Dispatches of Faynt Dams, Ex Mock M.P. (1932), a Satire on Near Future England conducted in an eighteenth-century idiom; War is imminent. [JC]
Okja
Film (2017). A US/South Korean co-production. Plan B Entertainment, Lewis Pictures, Kate Street Picture Company, Netflix, Next Entertainment World. Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Written by Bing and Jon Ronson. Cast includes Ahn Seo-hyun, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton and Steven Yeun. 120 minutes. Colour. / The Mirando Corporation, run by Lucy Mirando (Swinton), begins a programme of breeding "super pigs" (see ...
Charlton, L E O
(1879-1958) UK author and military officer (in the Royal Flying Corps throughout World War One) whose career became precarious after the war ended; on secondment to Iraq in the early 1920s, he had responded negatively to his discovery that "an air bomb in Iraq was, more or less, the equivalent of a police truncheon at home", and resigned his post. Much of his writing from this point deals with war in the air; his predictions of the extent of air power in the ...
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 ...