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Defying Gravity
American-Canadian tv series (2009). British Broadcasting Corporation, Fox Television Studios, and Omni Film Productions for CTV, SPACE and ProSieben. Created by James D Parriot. Producers include Michael Chechik and Michael Edelstein. Writers include Parriot, Sheri Elwood, Meredith Lavender, and Marcie Ulin. Directors include Sturla Gunnarsson, David Straiton, Peter Howitt, Fred Gerber, and Jeff Woolnough. Cast includes Ron Livingston as Maddux Donner, Laura Harris as Zoe Barnes, Malik ...
Harry, Matt
(? - ) US filmmaker and author whose earlier work, primarily the Codex Arcanum series beginning with Sorcery for Beginners (2017), is fantasy. He is of sf interest for Superkid (2021), featuring a girl Superhero whose exploits are written to appeal to the youngest cohort of the Young Adult market, and for Ash Land (2026), set in a ravaged ...
Two People Exchanging Saliva
French film (2024; original title Deux personnes échangeant de la salive). Misia Films, Preromanbritain, Galeries Lafeyette. Written and directed by Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh. Cast includes Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Luàna Bajrami and Aurélie Boquien. 36 minutes. Black and white. / In an unspecified Dystopia which looks like contemporary Paris, kissing is a crime punishable by death, ...
Kirkbride, Jasmin
(circa1990- ) Australian editor, academic and author, in UK from early years, who began publishing work of genre interest with Sand (13 October 2021 Tor.com; 2021 ebook). Her first novel, The Forest on the Edge of Time (2026), engages in the complex consequences of Time Travel through the efforts of its distant- ...
Dobrée, Bonamy
(1891-1974) UK academic and author, in active service during World War One. He is of sf interest for Timotheus: The Future of the Theatre (1925 chap), a contribution to its publisher's To-day and To-morrow series shaped as an excerpt from a Future History told presumably to Dobrée by its unnamed narrator, who had duplicated H G ...
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 ...