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Fukkatsu no Hi
Film (1981; vt Virus). Haruki Kadokawa Films. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Written by Kōji Takada, Gregory Knapp, Fukasaku, from Fukkatsu no Hi (1964) by Sakyō Komatsu. Cast includes Chuck Connors, Glenn Ford, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy, Masao Kusakari, Henry Silva and Robert Vaughn. 155 minutes (Japan), cut to 108 minutes (US), cut to 93 minutes (tv). Colour. / A germ-warfare virus is stolen and accidentally ...
Wonder Story Annual
US reprint Pulp magazine published by Better Publications, 1950, and Best Books, 1951-1953, both imprints of Standard Magazines; edited 1950-1951 by Sam Merwin Jr and 1952-1953 by Samuel Mines. The first issue was a bumper 196 pages. The magazine was taking advantage of the publisher's backlog of material bought for Wonder Stories and ...
Afrofuturism
A term coined by Mark Dery in "Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose" (1993 South Atlantic Quarterly) for a literary and cultural treatment of the African diaspora in terms of, or incorporating tropes from, the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Magic Realism, as seen from a Black cultural viewpoint; not a subgenre of sf but a genre that ...
Albano, Peter
(1922-2006) US author who served in the US Navy 1942-1946; he is known mainly for the nine-book Seventh Carrier sequence of Military SF adventures starring the World War Two Japanese aircraft carrier Yonaga, trapped for over forty years in a secret port by a shift of glacier ice. The crew and airmen, now mostly in their sixties, finally break free in late 1983. Owing to a rogue Chinese anti-missile system whose ...
Gordon, Stuart [2]
(1947-2020) US screenwriter, playwright and director who co-wrote the sf or Science Fantasy play trilogy Warp! with Lenny Kleinfeld, the latter writing as by Bury St Edmund; it was performed by the Chicago Organic Theater company in 1971, had a short Broadway run in February 1973, and was adapted for Comics (thus coming full circle since it been inspired by various Marvel Comics titles, ...
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 ...