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Davis, Ellis James
(1850-1905) UK barrister who, mainly in the 1870s, was briefly active as an author. Pyrna: A Commune; Or, Under the Ice (1875) is a Lost World tale, set under a Swiss glacier; the Underground civilization there discovered occupies a geometrical City, where equality between the Sexes is observed. In Front of the World (1876 3vols), even more ...
Pease, Tom
(? - ) US author of Pudoria (1961), a Near Future Utopia, with some authoritarian implications: financial transactions are abhorred; money itself cannot be mentioned; free love (see Sex) is openly practised. [JC]
Seksmisja
Film (1984; vt Sex Mission). Zespóły Filmowe. Directed by Juliusz Machulski. Written by Machulski, Jolanta Hartwig, Paweł Hajny. Cast includes Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Bogusława Pawelec, Bozena Stryjkówna and Jerzy Stuhr. 121 minutes. Colour. / A solemn adventurer and a jolly wastrel volunteer for a Cryonics experiment and wake up fifty years later (see Sleeper Awakes), after atomic ...
Wild Robot, The
US animated film (2024). DreamWorks Animation. Based on The Wild Robot (2016) by Peter Brown. Directed and written by Chris Sanders. Voice cast includes Kit Connor, Stephanie Hsu, Lupita Nyong'o, Catherine O'Hara and Pedro Pascal. 102 minutes. Colour. / Following a typhoon, several damaged boxes containing Robots are washed up on the shores of a forested island; curious otters accidentally press the On switch ...
Snyder, Cecil III
(1948- ) US author of The Hawks of Arcturus (1974), in which a lone Earthman defies the eponymous Aliens in their attempt to find the secrets of an ancient Galaxy-ruling race (see Forerunners). He should not be confused with his father, Cecil K Snyder Jr (1927- ), also an author. [JC]
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 ...