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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Substance, The
Film (2024). Working Title Films, Blacksmith, A Good Story. Written and directed by Coralie Fargeat. Cast includes Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid. 141 minutes. Colour. / On her fiftieth birthday, former film star Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore) is unceremoniously dismissed from her job as a fitness guru on a morning television show by sleazy boss Harvey (Quaid), who is looking for someone "young and hot". On her way home she crashes her car, and in hospital is given by a ...
Grandville, J J
Pseudonym of French caricaturist and illustrator Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803-1847), active from the mid-1820s to 1835, primarily as a caricaturist (until the imposition of prior censorship on political cartoons in 1835). He is of overall interest as a creator of images of Fantastika beginning with Les Métamorphoses du jour ["Metamorphoses of the Day"] (graph 1829) [for revised edition see Checklist], featuring caricatures of known ...
Nimona
US animated film (2023). Annapurna Pictures. Based on the web Comic Nimona (2012-2014) by ND Stevenson, assembled as the Graphic Novel Nimona (graph 2015). Directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane. Written by Robert L Baird and Lloyd Taylor. Voice cast includes Riz Ahmed, Charlotte Aldrich, Frances Conroy, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lorraine Toussaint, Eugene Lee Yang and Karen Ryan. 99 minutes. Colour. / ...
Hanshew, T W
(1857-1914) US-born author, in the UK from 1892, active as a writer of Pulp-magazine fiction and creator of the flamboyant burglar-turned-detective Hamilton Cleek (or rather, as he signs his early letters to Scotland Yard, "The Man Who Calls Himself Hamilton Cleek"), introduced in a series of magazine stories beginning with "The Man of the Forty Faces" (August 1910 People's Ideal Fiction Magazine) and in book form as The Man of the Forty Faces ...
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 ...