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Baker, Mishell
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Throwing Stones" in Beneath Ceaseless Skies for July 2010. She is of some sf interest for the first volume of her Arcadia Project sequence, Borderline (2016), a tale which edges occasionally in Equipoisal implications of transgressiveness in its depiction of an amputee with borderline personality ...
Manster, The
American-Japanese film (1959). Lopert Pictures/Shaw-Breakston Enterprises/United Artists of Japan. Directed by George P Breakston and Kenneth G Crane. Written by George P Breakston, based on a story by William J Sheldon. Cast includes Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Jerry Ito, Tetsu Nakamura, Norman Van Hawley and Terri Zimmern. 72 minutes. Black and white. / Larry Stanford (Dyneley), an American journalist temporarily working in Japan, interviews a Japanese ...
Savchenko, Vladimir
(1933-2005) Russian electronics engineer and author who began as an author of short stories in the 1950s, publishing Chernye zvezdy: nauchno-fantasticheskii povest ["Dark Stars"] (coll 1960) and contributing to anthologies. His most famous novel, Otkrytiie Sebia: nauchno-fantasticheskii roman (1967; trans Antonina W Bouis as Self-Discovery 1979), depicts in unclichéd terms the scientific development of a Superman. ...
Robot Carnival
Japanese animated film (1987). Original title Robotto Kānibaru. A.P.P.P. Directors and writers are named below. Voice cast includes James R Bowers, Junko Machida and Kohji Moritsugu. 90 minutes. Colour. / An anthology of sf shorts featuring Robots, eight in all (nine if the linked opening and closing segments are counted separately). Only two stories have dialogue. / Opening directed by Katsuhiro ...
Wolf, David
(1951- ) US physiologist and author, a research scientist whose experience is reflected in his sf novel, King of Infinite Space: A Murder Mystery (1998), a medical Technothriller in which young women are experimentally enclosed in giant water-filled capsules (see Sex; Women in SF), where their thoughts are exposed by a kind of mechanized ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...