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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the circumambient galactic Deep, in which very few stars ...
Giver, The
US film (2014). Walden Media. Directed by Philip Noyce. Written by Michael Mitnick and Robert B Welde, based on the novel The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry. Cast includes Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes, Cameron Monaghan, Thabo Rametsi, Odeya Rush, Alexander Skarsgârd, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift, Brendon Thwaites and Emma Tremblay. 97 minutes. Initially black and white, later colour. / A future ...
Fantastic Science Thriller
UK juvenile pocketbook series published by Stanley Baker Ltd. There were five issues, all in 1954: Adventures on the Planets (1954 chap) by Simon Querry, Pirates in Space (1954 chap) by William Causett, A Spot on the Sun (1954 chap) by Joseph Mois, Planets of Peril (1954 chap) by Clyde Marfax and ...
Lost Thing, The
Australian short animated film (2010). Passion Pictures. Based on the short Graphic Novel by Shaun Tan. Directed by Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan. Written by Shaun Tan. Narrated by Tim Minchin. 16 minutes. Colour. / Whilst collecting bottle-tops on his local beach, young adult Shaun finds a strange creature ignored by everyone else. It is the size of a small house, with tentacles and two ...
Sutherland, Morris
Pseudonym of UK author Gwendolen Sutherland Morris (1892-1973), most of whose novels were crime fiction; of sf interest is Second Storm (1930), a Near Future Politics tale set in 1933, when Russia experiences, to its betterment, a second revolution. [JC]
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 ...