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Windaria
Japanese animated film (1986; original title Dōwa Meita Senshi Windaria; vt Once Upon a Time; vt Legend of Fabulous Battle Windaria). Kaname Productions. Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama. Written by Keisuke Fujikawa. Voice cast includes Tōru Furuya, Kazuhiko Inoue, Waka Kanda and Naoko Matsui. 101 minutes. Colour. / The film opens with mourners watching "the ghost ship" – which resembles a ...
Clagett, John
(1916-2013) US naval officer during World War Two, diplomat, teacher/professor at Middlebury College, Vermont, and author whose first sf novel, A World Unknown (1975), is of some interest for its portrayal of an Alternate-History USA dominated by a Latin civilization that has never been influenced by Christianity – Jesus Christ having never existed. In The Orange R (1978), mutants known as ...
Time Stranger
Japanese Original Video Animation film (1986; original title Tenshi no Tamago). Madhouse. Directed by Mori Masaki. Written by Mori Masaki, Yoshio Takeuchi and Atsushi Yamatoya, based on the novel Toraerareta Schoolbus/Jikū no Tabibito (1986) by Taku Mayumura. Voice cast includes Takeshi Aono Makio Inoue, Mitsuo Iwata, Seiji Kumagai, Hiromi Murata, Osamu Saka, Keiko Toda, ...
Phantom of the Movies' VideoScope, The
US Letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine printed on newsprint. Published by PhanMedia L L C. Editor/publisher: Joe Kane. 1993-current. Publication schedule is quarterly. / Beginning as a newsletter-style Fanzine or Newszine in 1993, this title quickly evolved into a Semiprozine originally dedicated to publishing numerous reviews of films released to the home video ...
Pyle, Nathan W
(1982- ) US television production designer, cartoonist and author best known for his popular webcomic Strange Planet, launched in February 2019 and set in a world of typically blue, hairless, Alien (though Pyle avoids this term) humanoids shaped rather like the traditional Alien Greys of ufological tradition (see UFOs). These beings constantly discuss or enact human quirks and human situations with the kind of ...
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 ...