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Monroy, Liza
(1979- ) US author active from before 2010, known mostly for memoirs like The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took to Keep my Best Friend in America and What it Taught Us About Love (2014). Her second novel, The Distractions (2025), set in a Dystopian Near-Future manipulation-through-surveillance society; the protagonist of the tale is an AI coder whose central ...
Fry, Stephen
(1957- ) UK actor and author, known for his versatility and wit, perhaps most widely famous for the role of Jeeves in the television series of P G Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster (1990-1993) and more recently as a popular pundit on the social network Twitter. Of his several novels, Making History (1996), a complex Time Travel tale whose outcome is an ...
Daníelsson, Hjalti
(1979- ) Icelandic author (see Iceland) who has been deeply involved as designer and story creator for the Videogame EVE Online, a Space Sim (see Massively Multiplayer Online Games), a Space Opera enterprise set in a ...
One Million Years B.C.
Film (1966). Hammer/Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Don Chaffey. Written by Michael Carreras, based on the screenplay of One Million B.C. (1940). Cast includes Martine Beswick, Robert Brown, John Richardson and Raquel Welch. 100 minutes. Colour. / The first of Hammer's several stone-age movies (see also When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth), this is a remake of the ...
Saunders, Norman
(1907-1989) US artist who was active in Comics and especially the Pulp magazines, later working on paperbacks and trading cards. Some work was signed simply Blaine, his middle name. Saunders began painting pulp magazine covers in 1935, his first straight sf cover being for the August 1938 Marvel Science Stories. Other sf magazines to which he contributed covers or interiors include ...
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 ...