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Steffan, Dan
(1953- ) US artist and editor active in Fanzines, Semiprozines, Convention publications and underground Comics since the early 1970s; he has contributed artwork to Algol, Ansible, FAPA, Heavy Metal, ...
NieA Under 7
Japanese animated tv series (2000), based on the Manga by Abe Yoshitoshi. Triangle Staff. Chief Director Tomokazu Tokoro. Written by Takuya Satō. Voice cast includes Ayako Kawasumi, Yuko Miyamura and Fumiko Orikasa. Thirteen 23-minute episodes. Colour. / Mayuko Chigasaki (Kawasumi), teenaged and poor in small-town Japan, attends cram school in preparation for the examinations to enter university. To pay for this she lives ...
Gladiatorerna
Film (1968; vt The Peace Game; vt The Gladiators). Sandrews/New Line. Directed by Peter Watkins. Written by Nicholas Gosling and Watkins. Cast includes Frederick Danner, Björn Franzen, Kenneth Lo and Arthur Pentelow. 105 minutes, cut to 91 minutes. Colour. / Watkins uses his customary cinema-verité approach in this Swedish-made film about a Near Future in which, as a surrogate for full-scale ...
Heller, Peter
(1959- ) US journalist and author whose first four books are nonfiction adventures mostly dealing with expeditions to various extremities of the planet; his first novel, The Dog Stars (2012), is set in a Near Future America devastated by a flu-based Pandemic and finished off by an auto-immune disorder. The protagonist, who is a pilot, lies low near Denver with a ...
Killer Ape
Film (1953). Columbia Pictures. Produced by Sam Katzman. Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennett (credited as Spencer G Bennett). Written by Samuel Newman based on the Comics character Jungle Jim created by Alex Raymond. Cast includes Nestor Paiva, Max Palmer, Carol Thurston, Johnny Weissmuller and Burt Wenland. 68 minutes. Black and white. / In southeastern Asia, adventurer Jungle Jim notices various wild animals acting ...
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 reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...