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Yücel, Tahsin
(1933-2016) Turkish academic, translator and author; of sf interest is a Near Future novel, Gökdelen (2006; trans Ender Gürol as Skyscraper 2013), whose exceedingly wealthy architect protagonist instigates in 2073 a plan to modernize Istanbul on rigorously Modernist lines: the Utopia being created features a central grid of identical skyscrapers, an emblematic ...
Suk, Sarah
(? - ) Canadian author of Young Adult fiction. She is of sf interest for The Space Between Here & Now (2023), a Time-Travel tale whose young protagonist's shifts to earlier parts of her own life are generated by smell; at one point she inhabits her own mother's Memories. This is taxing. Meet Me at Blue Hour ...
Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
Film (1966; vt Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.). AARU. Directed by Gordon Flemyng. Written by Milton Subotsky, based on a six-episode Doctor Who television story by Terry Nation, The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964). Cast includes Bernard Cribbins, Jill Curzon, Peter Cushing and Roberta Tovey. 84 minutes. Colour. / This was the second movie made by coproducers Milton Subotsky and Max J Rosenberg to cash in ...
Hoffman, Mike
(1958- ) US artist who has worked in Comics as penciller for both DC Comics and Marvel Comics titles, the former including Batman and Hellblazer and the latter Swamp Thing. As a creator of book cover art he is strongly associated with Jean-Marc Lofficier's and Randy ...
Trudno byt' bogom
1. Film (1989; vt Hard To Be a God). Dovzhenko Studio/Halleluya Film GMBH/VO Sovexportfilm. Directed by Peter Fleischmann. Written by Fleischmann, Jean-Claude Carriere, Dal Orlov, based on Trudno byt' bogom (1964; trans as Hard to be a God 1973) by Arkady and Boris Strugatski. Cast includes Andrei Boltnev, Edward Dzentara, Alexander Filippenko, Ann Gautier, Mikhail Gluzsky, Werner Herzog and Christina ...
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 ...