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Barber Westchester
US animated film (2022). Herbert Sorbet Studios. Directed and written by Jonni Peppers. Voice cast includes Maddie Brewer, Lindsey DeMars, Zach Dorn, Chris Kim, Sam Lane, Grace Milk, Jonni Peppers, Frankie Tamaru and Victoria Vincent. 90 minutes. Colour. / DeSabla is a town located in a mountainous region of California; Barber Westchester (Kim) – her head a mass of blue hair with two large eyes protruding – is Mayor Wisconsin's (Peppers/Brewer) official astronomer (see ...
Franck, Tyler Corey
(1969- ) US designer of the Expanse Role Playing Game and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Audience" in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show for March 2006; with Daniel Abraham under the joint pseudonym James S A Corey, he has written the Expanse sequence based on the game, beginning ...
Accel World
Japanese animated tv series (2012). Original title Akuseru Wārudo. Based on the Light Novels by Reki Kawahara. Sunrise. Written by Hiroyuki Yoshino. Directed by Masakazu Ohara (as Masakazu Obara). Voice cast includes Shintaro Asanuma, Rina Hidaka, Yuuki Kaji, Sanae Kobayashi, Sachika Misawa, Nobuo Tobita and Aki Toyosaki. 24 24-minute episodes, plus eight shorts and two OVAs. Colour. / In the ...
Teenagers from Outer Space
US film (1959; vt Invasion of the Gargon; vt The Gargon Terror; vt The Ray Gun Terror UK). Tom Graeff Productions/Warner Brothers Pictures. Directed and produced by Tom Graeff. Written by Graeff. Cast includes Dawn Bender (credited as Dawn Anderson), Harvey B Dunn (Gramps Morgan), Tom Graeff (credited as Tom Lockyear – Joe Rogers), Bryan Grant, David Love, King Moody (spacecraft captain) and Gene Sterling. 86 minutes cut to 72 minutes for home video release. ...
Rochelle, Warren
(1954- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "A Peaceful Heart" in Aboriginal Science Fiction for May-June 1989; the Changeling sequence, beginning with Harvest of Changelings (2007), is fantasy. Of sf interest is The Wild Boy (2001), an Invasion tale in which spacefaring Extraterrestrials turn Earth in a kind of ...
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 ...