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Island, The
Film (2005). DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros Pictures present a Parkes/Macdonald production. Directed by Michael Bay. Written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci. Cast includes Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi, Djimon Hounsou, Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor. 136 minutes. Colour. / The United States, 2019 CE. In a sterile, Underground community, the white-clad populace are taught that they are among ...
Youers, Rio
(1971- ) UK-born author in Canada for many years; his early work, beginning with Everdead (2008), tends to supernatural horror, an emphasis shifting, in a tale like Point Hollow (2015), to topoi verging on Horror in SF, as a malign entity within a mountain gives small-town Americans a glimpse of some truths about the past. The Forgotten Girl (2017) is a paranormal thriller whose protagonist, ...
Dryden, J L
(? -? ) US author of book-length sf poem about Atlantis, Mona: Queen of Lost Atlantis: An Idyllic Re-embodiment of Long Forgotten History (1925), which traces the rise and fall of the great Island. [JC]
Potocki, Jan
(1761-1815) Polish military engineer, ethnologist, linguist, traveller and author whose first stories – which show the influences of Arabian Fantasy [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] – appeared in the 1780s, embedded into his travel books. He is best-known for Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse ["The Manuscript Found at Saragossa"], a complex text whose publication history is so convoluted ...
Cleve, John
Pseudonym used mainly by Andrew J Offutt for several erotic sf novels and for the first six volumes of the 19-volume Spaceways sequence; most of the rest were jointly authored. Offutt's collaborators included G C Edmondson, Roland Green, Jack C Haldeman, Robin Kincaid, Victor Koman, Geo W ...
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 ...