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Subterranean
US semi-professional magazine which began in print form and gradually migrated to an Online Magazine with a brief overlapping of two separate magazines. The print version was letter size, on quality paper, published and edited by William K. Schafer as an adjunct to Subterranean Press in Burton, Michigan, which had specialized in quality books, mostly horror and the supernatural, and the first issue of the magazine, published in May 2005, also focused on ...
Appleseed
Animated film (2004). Sori. Directed by Shinji Aramaki. Written by Haruka Handa, Tsutomo Kamishiro, based on the Manga Appleseed (begun 1985) by Masamune Shirow. 105 minutes. Colour. / This is the second adaptation of this manga, after the cruder, made-for-video Appleseed (1988). Appleseed is set in a future where most of Earth has been reduced to cinders by global conflict, and ...
Cane, Nancy
Pseudonym of US romance author Nancy J Cohen (1948- ), best known under her own name for the Bad Hair Day sequence of nonfantastic mysteries beginning with Permed to Death (1999) and continuing for many volumes [not here listed]. Her first work of sf interest, the Light-Years Trilogy beginning with Circle of Light (1994), is a Space Opera engaging many race in interstellar ...
Eve of Destruction
Film (1991). Orion. Directed by Duncan Gibbons. Written by Gibbons, Yale Udoff. Cast includes Gregory Hines and Renee Soutendijk. 98 minutes. Colour. / Soutendijk is good, both as Eve, a Defense Department scientist, and as Eve VIII, the military Robot that she creates in her own image. Armed with endless firepower and a nuclear bomb, the robot destroys the men Eve secretly hates, several male chauvinists and the police who try to stop her. Some critics ...
Aresty, Adam
(? - ) US screenwriter and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Another Living Body" in Mad Scientist Journal for August 2012; he wrote the script for one full-length horror film, Stung (2015), directed by Bennie Diez (see Horror in SF). Aresty is of direct sf interest for his first novel, the Young Adult Near Future ...
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 ...