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Montimore, Margarita
(? - ) US author whose first novel of psychic distress and disarray, Asleep from Day (2018), investigates the one-day Amnesia of its protagonist through scenes that bleed into the fantastic (see Fantastika), though without any explicit dissolving of borders. She is of sf interest for her second novel, Oona Out of Order (2020; vt ...
Enemy Mine
Film (1985). Kings Road Entertainment/Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Written by Edward Khmara, based on Enemy Mine (September 1979 Asimov's; 1989 chap dos) by Barry B Longyear. Cast includes Louis Gossett Jr and Dennis Quaid. 108 minutes, cut to 93 minutes. Colour. / During a space battle between humans and the reptilian (and hermaphroditic) Dracs, two pilots, one from each ...
Return of Sherlock Holmes, The
Made-for-tv film (1987). CBS Entertainment Productions for CBS-TV. Produced by Nick Gillott. Directed by Kevin Connor. Written by Bob Shayne. Based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Cast includes Margaret Colin, Barry Morse and Michael Pennington. 100 minutes. Colour. / Modern-day private detective Jane Watson (Colin) must sell the UK estate that belonged to her ancestor Dr Watson. On her final visit, a lawyer gives her an old letter ...
Shurin, Jared
(? - ) US editor, long resident in the UK with his wife and co-anthologist Anne C Perry, with whom he founded the Pornokitsch blog and the Kitschies Awards (which see) first presented in 2010. He and Perry began to publish anthologies of genre interest with Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse (anth 2011), which had several successors [see Checklist below]. Three later titles ...
Maken Liner 0011 Henshin Seyo
Japanese animated film (1972; vt Go Get Team 0011; vt Demon Dog Liner 0011 Transform!). Toei Animation. Created by Sasagawa Hiroshi. Directed by Takeshi Tamiya. Written by Yûgo Serikawa and Masaki Tsuji. Voice cast includes Haruko Kitahama, Minori Matsushima, Masako Nozawa, Kyoko Satomi, Machiko Soga and Masato Yamauchi. 50 minutes. Colour. / Some time in the future, Professor Hayashi (Yamauchi) has announced that Earth is threatened by ...
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 ...