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Treadwell, James
(? - ) UK academic and author, active in the former capacity in Canada until his return to England; Interpreting Wagner (2003) is an incisive study. Of interest is his Science Fantasy trilogy, the Advent Trilogy comprising Advent (2012), Anarchy (2013) and Arcadia (2015), set Equipoisally in a realistically described ...
Electric Wine
US Online Magazine published by Diana L Sharples and James E M Rasmussen of Marietta, Georgia. It ran for twelve bimonthly issues between November 1999 (it actually went live on Hallowe'en) and October 2001. It is one of a number of low-paying quasi-Semiprozines that experimented with online publication in the late 1990s and of which virtually nothing now survives bar a few scattered fragments in various archives. It ran both ...
Cabin in the Woods, The
Film (2012). Lionsgate presents a Mutant Enemy production in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists. Directed by Drew Goddard. Written by Goddard and Joss Whedon. Cast includes Amy Acker, Kristen Connolly, Tim DeZarn, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Richard Jenkins, Fran Kranz, Sigourney Weaver, Brian J White, Bradley Whitford and Jesse Williams. 95 minutes. Colour. / The Clichés of "slasher" ...
Egleton, Clive
(1927-2006) UK soldier and author who began to publish novels with the Garnett sequence – A Piece of Resistance (1970; rev vt Never Surrender 2004), Last Post for a Partisan (1971) and The Judas Mandate (1972) – about UK Post-Holocaust resistance to the Russians who occupy the islands after nuclear war; in the end, a government-in-exile is formed and the invaders, drained by a China ...
Lakshminarayan, Lavanya
(? - ) Indian Videogame designer and author whose first book of fiction, Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Your Future (coll of linked stories/fixup 2020; rev vt The Ten Percent Thief 2023), sophisticatedly overrides any restrictive classification of her portrait of the lives of twenty inhabitants of the distant Near Future Apex City, members of the privileged ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...