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Woodley, Sherrida
(1950- ) US author in whose Near Future sf tale Quick Fall of Light (2010) the survival of a passenger pigeon offers a chance that Homo sapiens will not succumb to a new Pandemic as devastating as the 1918 Spanish flu. [JC]
Tron
Film (1982) Lisberger/Kushner/Walt Disney. Directed by Steven Lisberger. Written by Lisberger, from a story by Lisberger, Bonnie MacBird. Cast includes Bruce Boxleitner, Jeff Bridges, Cindy Morgan and David Warner. 96 minutes. Colour. / In this pleasing but lightweight film, a young man (Bridges) seeks evidence about dirty work in the Computer company from which he has just resigned. Smuggled into the firm's building by friends, he is ...
McCollum, Michael A
(1946- ) US control-systems engineer (specializing in aerospace propulsion) and author, who began publishing sf with "Duty, Honor, Planet" for Analog, April 1979. His first novel, A Greater Infinity (fixup 1982), established the pattern he would follow through the 1980s: a complex Space-Opera adventure plot – assembling the variously published Greater Infinity stories beginning with ...
Little Witch Academia
Japanese animated tv series (2017). Trigger. Created and Directed by Yoh Yoshinari. Written by Michiru Shimada. Voice cast includes Megumi Han, Noriko Hidaka, Yōko Hikasa, Shōzō Iizuka, Rie Murakawa, Michiyo Murase, Fumiko Orikasa and Junko Takeuchi. 25 24-minute episodes. Colour. / This Television series was preceded by two short films: Little Witch Academia (2013) and ...
Ninjago
Danish-Canadian animated tv series (2011-2022; vt Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu). The Lego Group; Wil Film ApS (pilot episodes to season 10); WildBrain Studios (seasons 11-15). Created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. Written by Kevin Hageman and Dan Hageman (seasons 1-9) and Bragi Schut (seasons 10-15). Music by Michael Kramer and Jay Vincent. Voice cast includes Michael Adamthwaite, Kirby Morrow, Brent Miller, Vincent ...
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 ...