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Paycheck
Film (2003). Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures present a Davis Entertainment Company/Lion Rock production in association with Solomon/Hackett Productions. Directed by John Woo. Written by Dean Georgaris, based on "Paycheck" (June 1953 Imagination) by Philip K Dick. Cast includes Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Paul Giamatti and Uma Thurman. 119 minutes. Colour. / Michael Jennings (Affleck) makes a living as an ...
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 ...
One Step Beyond
US Television Anthology Series (1959-1961; vt Alcoa Presents One Step Beyond). ABC Films, Joseph L Schenck Enterprises, One Step Beyond Productions Inc. Created by Merwin Gerard. Produced by Collier Young. Directed and presented by John Newland. Theme music by Harry Lubin. Writers include Charles Beaumont, Gerard, Don M Mankiewicz, Larry Marcus, Howard Rodman and Gabrielle Upton. Three seasons ...
Uchūdaikaijū Girara
Film (1967; vt The X from Outer Space). Shôchiku Eiga. Directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu. Written by Moriyoshi Ishida, Eibi Motomochi, Kazui Nihonmatsu. Cast includes Mike Daneen, Peggy Neal, Keisuke Sonoi, Toshiya Wazaki and Shinichi Yanagisawa. 89 minutes. Colour. / Four astronauts – Captain Sano (Wazaki), biologist Lisa (Neal), Dr Shioda (Sonoi), and communications officer Miyamoto (Yanagisawa) – are sent on a flight to Mars to ...
Häpna!
Swedish SF Magazine with 119 issues published from March 1954 to Spring 1966. Digest-sized, 96pp (occasionally 112pp) plus cover, supposedly edited throughout by Kjell Ekström (but see below) and published monthly, though from the beginning the July and August issues were combined into one; in 1957 and 1961 also the May and June issues; in 1960 the June/July and August/September issues; in 1964, ...
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 ...