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Dredd
Film (2012). Lionsgate and Reliance Entertainment in association with IM Global present a DNA Films production. Directed by Pete Travis. Written by Alex Garland, based on the 2000 AD strip Judge Dredd created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. Cast includes Domhnall Gleeson, Wood Harris, Lena Headey, Olivia Thirlby and Karl Urban. 95 minutes. Colour, 3D (converted). / In Mega-City One ...
Senkovsky, Osip
Form of his name used by Polish-born musical scholar, inventor, linguist, editor and author Józef-Julian Sękowski (1800-1858), in Russia from 1821, where he wrote copiously as Senkovsky, though his Satires were as by Baron Brambeus. He wrote in Russian, and is treated as a significant Russian literary figure. Fantasticheskie puteshestviya Barona Brambeusa (coll of linked stories 1833; trans Louis Pedrotti as ...
Cordasco, Rachel S
(1982- ) US independent scholar and translator focusing on SF in Translation (henceforth SFT). Cordasco earned a PhD in Literary Studies in 2010; after working as a lecturer and then editor for several years, she transitioned into independent writing, first reviewing SFT for John DeNardo's SF Signal. In May 2016, Cordasco launched SFinTranslation.com, a site dedicated to cataloguing and promoting ...
Planet 51
Spanish/UK/American animated film (2009). Ilion Animation Studios (Madrid) and HandMade Films. Directed by Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad and Marcos Martinez. Written by Joe Stillman, based on an original idea by Abad, Blanco, Martinez and Ignacio Perez Dolset. Cast includes Dwayne Johnson, Justin Long and Seann William Scott. 86 minutes. Colour. / A Spanish homage to Fifties America with an inverted Invasion in which humans are the ...
Thompson, Trudy
(? - ) US author of the romantic Planetary Romance Prisoner of Passion (1995), set in the Far Future of a planet that may be Earth, now a world that has been divided into three portions by the Ancient Ones. There are some resemblance to E R Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros (1922). Hostage Hearts (2006) is a romantic ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...