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Diskin, Lahna F
(? - ) US academic, author and critic, for many years a professor of English until she retired in 1999. She published two useful books on Theodore Sturgeon: the Bibliography Theodore Sturgeon: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980), and the Starmont House study Theodore Sturgeon (1981 chap) as Lahna Diskin. From 1982 to 1985 she also reviewed for ...
Platonov, Andrey
Working name of Russian author Andrew Platonovich Klimentov (1899-1951), best known for his mainstream fiction, in particular his portrayals of ordinary humans caught in the gears of totalizing (but savagely ineffective) Technology. One of the most talented figures active in the first decades after the 1917 Revolution, he was regarded with suspicion by "official" literary critics and much of his work did not appear in Russia for many ...
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Film (1984). Paramount. Directed by Leonard Nimoy. Written by Harve Bennett. Cast includes the lead players from the Star Trek television series, along with Robin Curtis, Merritt Butrick, Christopher Lloyd. 105 minutes. Colour. / This is the third movie in the Star Trek movie series begun with Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and it follows directly on ...
Glaskin, G M
(1923-2000) Australian author whose sf novel A Change of Mind (1959) concerns a hypnotic mind-transference between two men, with much emotional activity – and melodrama – consequent upon the changeover. Glaskin also wrote a series of nonfiction books, beginning with Windows of the Mind: The Christos Experiment (1974), describing experiments purporting to involve a form of psychic Time Travel à la J W ...
Synchronic
Film (2019). Patriot Pictures in association with Pfaff and Pfaff Productions, Love and Death Productions and Rustic Films. Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Written by Justin Benson. Cast includes Katie Aselton, Jamie Dornan, Allie Ioannides, Anthony Mackie and Ramiz Monsef. 102 minutes. Colour. / New Orleans paramedics Steve (Mackie) and Dennis (Dornan) encounter a spate of unusual and baroque deaths among the City's drug-using population, ...
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 ...