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Feghoots
Item of sf Terminology denoting a brief, joky fictional anecdote or vignette which builds towards, and whose entire impact depends on, some more or less ludicrous punchline in the form of a pun or spoonerism; occasionally the effect is of deliberate anticlimax, as in the shaggy-dog story (see Flash Fiction; Humour). The name derives from Reginald Bretnor's sequence ...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Film (2014). Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present a Marvel Studios production. Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, based on the Marvel Comics by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Cast includes Jenny Agutter (cameo), Chris Evans, Maximiliano Hernandez, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Toby Jones, Stan Lee (cameo), Anthony Mackie, ...
Knittel, John
(1891-1970) Indian-born Swiss screenwriter and author, in the UK between 1908 and 1921, subsequently in Switzerland; at some point before he began publishing (always initially in English) after World War One, he gave up his birth name, Herman Emanuel Knittel. His first novel, Aaron West (1921), is a Robinsonade set on a tropical Island, where a yearning man seeks Transcendence. ...
Power, Craig Francis
(? - ) Canadian artist and author whose first two novels, Blood Relatives (2010) and The Hope (2016), are nonfantastic; he is of sf interest for his third, Skeet Love (2017), a loose-limbed gonzo tale set in Near Future Toronto whose protagonists, beset by bad Drugs and hints of global surveillance directed at them, go on the ...
Ali, S K
(? - ) Indian-born journalist and author, in Canada from early childhood, whose first novel, the associational Young Adult tale Saints and Misfits (2017), attracted some attention. She is of sf interest for the Keeper's Records of Revolution sequence beginning with Fledgling: The Keeper's Records of Revolution (2024), set in a devastated Near-Future world ...
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 ...