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Born in Flames
Film (1983). Lizzie Borden/Jerome Foundation/CAPS/Young Filmmakers. Written, produced, edited and directed Lizzie Borden. Cast includes Adele Bertei, Kathryn Bigelow, Honey, Flo Kennedy and Jeanne Satterfield. 80 minutes. Colour. / This underground movie, made over five years on 16 mm film and video, was deservedly given quite wide distribution. Ten years after a peaceful social-democratic revolution in the USA, the Party is in power, the position of women in society is still not ...
Kearney, Susan
(1955- ) US author, usually of paranormal romances like the Pendragon Legacy [for titles see Checklist], though some of her work – especially the loose unnamed series comprising The Challenge (2005), The Dare (2005) and The Ultimatum (2006) – is amply tinged with sf. In the first of these, a secret agent finds love in the future through Time Travel; in the second, an ...
E-Zine
A form of Online Magazine which may be sent to a subscriber by email, sometimes as an email attachment. Most of the early digital magazines, starting with FSFnet, were e-zines as, until 1991, there was no World Wide Web. When Galaxy switched to online publication it called itself an E-zine, though it was really a web-based magazine that also distributed issues by CD-ROM, which is another form of digital distribution. ...
Everett, Percival
(1956- ) US academic and author, active from the early 1980s, whose novels variously and imaginatively press against mimetic readings; though most are nonfantastic, there is a sense that many of them pan the water margins of Fantastika. Several novels are of sf interest. In Zulus (1990), a Near Future tale set after the end of a nuclear World War Three, the ...
Human Vapour, The
Japanese film (1960). Original title Gasu Ningen Daiichigō. Toho. Directed by Ishirō Honda. Written by Takeshi Kimura. Cast includes Tatsuya Mihashi, Fuyuki Murakami, Keiko Sata, Yoshio Tsuchiya and Kaoru Yachigusa. 91 minutes. Colour. / A car chase following a bank robbery ends with the criminal's vehicle going off the road and crashing: the police find the car empty, yet no footprints nearby. When another bank is robbed the metal gate ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...