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South Korea
(For sf activity before 1945, see the entry for pre-partition Korea.) / In South Korea, literary circles of the 1950s and 1960s generally favored realist, socially engaged fiction as the preferred vehicle for articulating political critique and cultural resistance, often viewing genre fiction – particularly sf – as escapist or didactic. As a result, native sf was typically relegated to the realm of juvenile literature, its educational function ...
Schwob, Marcel
(1867-1905) French author whose fantasies were influential on authors like Jorge Luis Borges; it is not known if Clark Ashton Smith read his work, though resemblances in tone and venue make this not unlikely. For his story "La Mort d'Odjigh" ["The Death of Odjigh"] (1892; in Le roi au masque d'or et autres nouvelles, coll 1893; trans by Iain White in The King in the Golden Mask, coll ...
Castle, Agnes
(1862-1922) Irish author, best known for her collaborations with her husband, Egerton Castle (1858-1920); it is not easy to identify a senior collaborator, though Egerton spent much time as a competitive fencer. Their only novel with fantastic elements is The Star Dreamer: A Romance (1903) as Agnes and Egerton Castle, whose female protagonist, enamoured of an astronomer, must forge her own course after he disappears in a seemingly Near-Future ...
Anonymous SF Editors
This entry, as a companion to Anonymous (dealing with never-identified authors), notes uncredited and never-identified Anthology editors who owing to their anonymity can be referred to only by citing their productions. Anonymously edited sf Anthologies are not particularly common, unlike the case with ghost and horror stories. We do not treat pairs of novellas or novels bound in ...
Kinvig
UK tv series (1981). London Weekend Television. Created and written by Nigel Kneale. Produced and directed by Les Chatfield. Cast includes Prunella Gee, Tony Haygarth, Colin Jeavons and Patsy Rowlands. Seven 25-minute episodes. Colour. / This most recent of Kneale's many sf plays and series for television was a sitcom, fuelled apparently by a certain animus against sf Fandom, about two lunatic fans living seedy urban lives, ...
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 ...