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Broderick, Damien
(1944-2025) Australian author, editor and critic; he had a PhD in the semiotics of fiction, science and sf with special reference to the work of Samuel R Delany. He edited four anthologies of Australian sf: The Zeitgeist Machine (anth 1977), Strange Attractors (anth 1985), Matilda at the Speed of Light (anth 1988) and Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (anth ...
Universal Translator
Automated language translation is a highly convenient plot device for sf stories, facilitating Communication with Aliens without miring the action in realistic examination of Linguistic issues. An early example is the Language Rectifier facility of the Telephot videophone in Hugo Gernsback's Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660 (April 1911-March 1912 ...
Owl House, The
US animated tv series (2020-2023). Disney Television Animation (see Disney on Television). Creator and Executive Producer Dana Terrace. Directors include Bosook Coburn, Aminder Dhaliwal, Stu Livingston, Amelia Lorenz, Stephen Sandoval and Bridget Underwood. Writers include Mikki Crisostomo, Charley Feldman, Madeleine Hernandez, Zach Marcus, Molly Ostertag, John Bailey Owen, Avi Roque, Dana Terrace and Rachel Vine. Voice cast includes Alex Hirsch, ...
Flanagan, Richard
(1961- ) Australian author whose third novel, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (2001) describes early Australian history – specifically the deeply troubled culture of Tasmania – in terms at points reminiscent of the Magic Realism techniques used by Latin American writers in their manufacture of national myths of origin; the tale is a central example of what has come to be known as Tasmanian Gothic, ...
Post, Samuel H
(1924-2005) US editor, publisher and anthologist, both of whose sf Anthologies were edited anonymously. The 6 Fingers of Time and Other Stories (anth 1965) assembles six stories from If 1959-1961 (although the cover credits them to Galaxy), the title novella by R A Lafferty having originally appeared as "The Six Fingers of Time" (September 1960 ...
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 ...