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Adams, Frederick Upham
(1859-1921) US inventor, who specialized in improvements to heavy-duty engines for harvesting and locomotion, and author whose Near Future Utopia, President John Smith: The Story of a Peaceful Revolution (Written in 1920) (1897), elaborates upon the right of the electorate to choose the American Cabinet, and to earn a living wage without qualification. ...
Prometheus
Film (2012). Twentieth Century Fox in association with Dune Entertainment presents a Scott Free/Brandywine production. Directed by Ridley Scott. Written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof. Cast includes Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender, Logan Marshall-Green, Guy Pearce, Noomi Rapace, Ralph Spall and Charlize Theron. 124 minutes. Colour. / In 2093, the ship Prometheus includes archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw (Rapace) and Charlie Holloway ...
Club Story
1. Assemblages of tales told within an enabling frame-story (sometimes referred to as a "cornice") to a group of companions in a sheltered venue have only recently been called club stories, a term of nineteenth-century provenance that has proved currently useful. It is not perhaps a term that very adequately encompasses (for instance) the implications of Odysseus's narrating most of the prior events of The Odyssey (circa 700 BCE) (see Homer) late ...
Dennison, Britta
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with Night of the Wolves: 2345-2357 (2008) with S D Perry, a Tie to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999); other novel ties in collaboration with Perry followed, including Wonder Woman (2009), novelizing the film Wonder Woman (2009) (see ...
Whyte, Andrew A
(1940-1993) US bibliographer whose main work has been to compile with Anthony R Lewis several volumes of The N.E.S.F.A. Index to Science Fiction Magazines and Original Anthologies during 1973-1984. Solo he produced The New SF Bulletin Index to SF Books, 1974 (1974 chap). He was a founder of NESFA (New England Science Fiction Association) in 1965. [JC]
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...