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Sweat Punch
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (2001-2002; 2007; vt Deep Imagination). Studio 4°C. Voice cast includes Enapok, Shino Kakinuma, Ai Maeda, Hikaru Midorikawa and Rumi Shishido. An anthology of five 8-13 minute sf and fantasy shorts; 57 minutes in total. Colour. / The four issues (2001-2002) of the DVD magazine Grasshoppa! contained, in all, 30 live-action and Anime short films. Each included a work ...
Gonzales, Laurence
(1947- ) US author, mostly of nonfiction, including Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (2003). He is of sf interest for Lucy (2010), an Apes as Human tale whose protagonist discovers after he has adopted the child of a dead colleague in Africa that she is the result of a Eugenic experiment in Genetic Engineering, and that she is ...
Mace, Elisabeth
(1933- ) UK author of Young Adult novels, of which several are of sf interest. The Leven sequence – comprising Ransome Revisited (1975; vt Out There 1975) and The Ruston Inheritance (1978) – is set in a depopulated Ruined-Earth environment, initially in an isolated dictatorial enclave in the UK, from which the young protagonists escape; the second ...
Maddox, Tom
Working name of US author and academic Daniel Thomas Maddox (1945-2022), who began publishing polished short stories with "The Mind Like a Strange Balloon" in Omni for June 1985. This introduces characters who reappear in his only novel, Halo (1991), which moves from a Cyberpunk Earth to a Space Habitat, engaging en route in an intense contemplation of the nature of artificial intelligence ...
Knights of Sidonia
Japanese animated tv series (2014-current). Original title Sidonia no Kishi. Based on the Manga by Tsutomu Nihei. Polygon Pictures. Directed by Kōbun Shizuno (season one) and Hiroyuki Seshita (season two). Written by Sadayuki Murai. Voice cast includes Satomi Arai, Hisako Kanemoto, Sayaka Ohara, Ryota Ohsaka, Takahiro Sakurai, Aya Suzaki and Aki Toyosaki. 24 25-minute episodes. Colour. / Sidonia may be the last of ...
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 ...