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Earth: Final Conflict
American-Canadian tv series (1997-2002). Alliance Atlantis Communications and Tribune Entertainment. Created by Gene Roddenberry. Producers include Majel Barett Roddenberry, Paul Gertz, David Kirschner, and Seaton McLean. Writers include Gertz, John Whelpley, George Geiger, and D C Fontana. Directors include Brenton Spencer, Andrew Potter, Ross Clyde, and Vincenzo Natali. Cast ...
Swycaffer, Jefferson P
(1956- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "At the Sign of the Brass Breast" (in Swords Against Darkness IV, anth 1979, edited by Andrew J Offutt), though in his full length work he focused almost exclusively of Ties, including the Concordat sequence, beginning with Not in our Stars (1984) and ending with The Praesidium of Archive (1985), ...
Gregory, Owen
Pseudonym of the unidentified UK author (? -? ) of Meccania, the Super State (1918), a Dystopia in the mode of the Scientific Romance which describes a mechanical, rigidly class-ridden society – "Enlightenment" totalitarianism taken to its logical extreme – as recorded by Ming Yuen-hway, a Chinese visitor in 1970, about a century after its founding. Though never so ...
Under the Skin
Film (2013). Film4 and BFI present in association with Silver Reel, Creative Scotland and FinnNation Entertainment a Nick Wechsler/J W Films production. Directed by Jonathan Glazer. Written by Walter Campbell and Jonathan Glazer, based on Under the Skin (2000) by Michel Faber. Cast includes Scarlett Johansson and Adam Pearson. 108 minutes. Colour. / There are two films here. The first Under the Skin, which is of less interest in ...
Out of the Unknown
UK tv series (1965-1971). BBC TV. Produced by Irene Shubik (seasons 1 and 2), Alan Bromly (seasons 3 and 4). Script editor Irene Shubik (seasons 1 and 2), Roger Parkes (seasons 3 and 4). Writers included Terry Nation, J B Priestley, Troy Kennedy Martin, Clive Exton, Julian Bond, Nigel Kneale and Robert Muller. Directors included Michael Ferguson, Peter ...
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 ...