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Forsyth, Frederick
(1938-2025) UK author who gained fame with his first novel, The Day of the Jackal (1971), and whose books are generally political thrillers. The Shepherd (1975 chap), however, is a sentimental Timeslip or ghost fantasy in which a pilot on Christmas Eve 1957 is saved from crashing by a World War Two pilot in an antique bomber: pilot and plane had been shot down on the Christmas Eve of 1943. ...
Machinarium
Videogame (2009). Amanita Design. Designed by Jakub Dvorský. Platforms: Lin, Mac, Win (2009); iOS, Phone (2011). / Machinarium is a graphical Adventure, developed as an Independent Game and set in a fairytale "City of Robots". As in such earlier works as Another World (1991), a broadly linear ...
Underwood-Miller Inc
US Small Press founded in 1976 by Pennsylvania-based Chuck Miller and Tim Underwood, who worked in California. Their first book, a first hardcover edition of Jack Vance's The Dying Earth (1950; their edition 1976) almost accidentally set them on a course which would identify them with that author, many of whose works, new ...
Askaripour, Mateo
(? – ) US author whose first novel, the nonfantastic Black Buck (2021), is a exuberant Satire on American racism in the workplace. He is of sf interest for his second novel, This Great Hemisphere (2024), in which the satirical focus on America moves into a Near Future where certain categories of people are deemed Invisible. The ...
Magilumiere Co. Ltd.
Japanese animated tv series (2024; vt Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.; original title Kabushiki Gaisha Majirumie). Moe. J.C.Staff. Directed by Masahiro Hiraoka. Written by Shingo Nagai. Based on the Manga by Sekka Iwata and Yu Aoki. Voice cast include Fairouz Ai, Akira Ishida, Yumiri Hanamori, Hiyori Kono, Rikiya Koyama and Daiki Yamashita. Twelve 24 minute episodes. Colour. / Being a Magical Girl is "a respectable line ...
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 ...