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Fox, Gardner F
(1911-1986) US lawyer and author, who began writing in 1937 for DC Comics, including Superman. Arguably his most important work was for Comics: though it is claimed that he published at least 160 books under various names – not all are given here; some are Westerns with fantastic elements – this total pales beside his 4000 or more comic-book stories, also ...
Levinson, Leonard
(1935- ) US author of sf novels under other names: contributions to the Butler series of Sex-charged Technothrillers beginning with Killer Satellites (1980) under the House Name Philip Kirk; and The Camp (1977) as by Jonathan Trask. [JC]
Cook, Hugh
(1956-2008) UK-born New Zealand author, who spent much of his childhood in the South Pacific Republic of Kiribati, and who lived in Japan from 1997; he is known primarily for his interestingly varied and sometimes inventive fantasy series, Chronicles of an Age of Darkness, whose ornate textures are Equipoisal between Planetary Romance and fantasy, though the latter mode is dominant. His ...
Space Angel
US animated tv series (1962-1964). Cambria Productions. Created by Dick Darley. Directed by Dick Brown, Dick Darley and Alex Toth. Writers include Cecil Beard, David Detiege Clark Haas and Warren Tufts. Voice cast includes Margaret Kerry, Ned Le Fevre, GeGe Pearson and Hal Smith. 260 five-minute episodes, broadcast weekdays, with each weekly set being a serialized story (that is, 52 stories in all). Colour. / Eyepatch wearing Scott McCloud (Le Fevre) is ...
Steamboy
Japanese animated film (2004). Bandai Visual, Studio 4 degrees C, Steamboy Committee. Directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo. Written by Sadayuki Murai and Katsuhiro Ōtomo. Cast includes Kiyoshi Kodama, Manami Konishi, Katsuo Nakamura, Ann Suzuki and Masane Tsukayama. 126 minutes (also cut at 103 minutes). Colour. / Ponderous Steampunk caper in which a family of inventors trap super-heated, ...
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 (1966-1967), and later in ...