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Avengers: Infinity War
Film (2018). Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (see The Walt Disney Company) presents a Marvel Studios production. Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, based on The Avengers by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee with story motifs incorporated from Marvel Comics' The Infinity Gauntlet ...
Muž z Prvního Století
["Man from the First Century"] Czech film (1962; vt The Man from the First Century; vt The Man from the Past; Man in Outer Space). Filmové Studio Barrandov. Directed by Oldřich Lipský. Written by Lipský, Miloŝ Fiola and Jan Fišer (story); Lipský, Fiola, Fišer, and Zdeněk Bláha (screenplay). Cast includes Anita Kajlichova, Otomar Krejča, Milos Kopecký, ...
Crittendon, Denise
(? - ) US activist, journalist, editor and author, professionally active from before 1980s; she is of sf interest for her first novel, Where It Rains In Color (2022), set in a portion of the home galaxy occupied by Homo sapiens, on the planet Swazembi, colonized by an African civilization (see Afrofuturism Colonization of Other Worlds; (race in sf); ...
Waters, Steve
(1965- ) UK academic and playwright, whose works have been staged since the late 1990s. Of sf interest is The Contingency Plan: On the Beach & Resilience (coll of linked plays 2009); both plays, which were first performed in 2009 in London, are set in a Near Future Britain suffering the consequences of Climate Change, with an emphasis on inundation – Bristol is already underwater. ...
Tillyard, Aelfrida
(1883-1959) UK religious thinker, medium, activist and author who began publishing as early as 1905, but who first gained attention for editing Cambridge Poets 1910-1913: An Anthology (anth 1913); she published mostly under her own name, though some work was released as by Mrs Constantine Graham. She is now probably best remembered for her two 1930s Scientific Romances (others, written in the 1950s, remain unpublished). Set after a series of ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book ...