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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 ...
Manchurian Candidate, The
1. Film (1962). MC/Essex/United Artists. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Written by George Axelrod, based on The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon. Cast includes James Gregory, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh, John McGiver, Henry Silva and Frank Sinatra. 126 minutes. Black and white. / A group of US soldiers captured in Korea are subjected to elaborate ...
Megalopolis
Film (2024). American Zoetrope/Caesar Films. Written, co-produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Cast includes Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Lawrence Fishburne, Dustin Hoffman, Shia LaBeouf, Audrey Plaza and Jon Voight. 138 minutes. Colour. / In an Alternate-History twenty-first century, America has developed along the lines of the Roman Republic, and the capital, New Rome, is run by a group of patrician families. The ...
Rousseau, Victor
Working name of UK-born author Avigdor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960), who also used the pseudonym H M Egbert on his sf, though not exclusively, and signed as V R Emanuel for other work; born of a Jewish father and a French mother – as Sam Moskowitz writes in Under the Moons of Mars (anth 1970) – he lived more and more in the USA after his first arrival in 1901, with periods back in the UK, and in Canada 1912-1916, when much of his ...
Yansky, Brian
(1957- ) US author whose Near Future Young Adult Sangrian Invasion sequence – comprising Alien Invasion & Other Inconveniences (2010) and Homicidal Aliens & Other Disappointments (2013) – is set after an Alien Invasion has unhoused the young protagonist, who must learn how to survive while resisting ...
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 ...