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Ubukata Tow
(1977- ) Pen-name of a Japanese author and scriptwriter who often writes the prose and Anime or Manga versions of his stories, and who maintains strong connections to the world of computer games. Raised largely in Singapore and Nepal, Ubukata returned to his native Japan to complete his education in his teens. He dropped out of Waseda University's department of literature shortly after winning ...
Edge of Darkness
1. UK television miniseries (1985). BBC TV, Lionheart Television International. Produced by Michael Wearing, directed by Martin Campbell. Written by Troy Kennedy Martin. Cast includes Joe Don Baker, Hugh Fraser, Charles Kay, Ian McNeice, Kenneth Nelson, Bob Peck, Zoë Wanamaker, Jack Watson, Joanne Whalley, John Woodvine. Music by Eric Clapton and Michael Kamen. Six 50-minute episodes. Colour. / This miniseries is among the best ...
Terror in the Midnight Sun
Swedish/US film (1959; original title Rymdinvasion i Lappland; vt Invasion of the Animal People; vt Space Invasion of Lapland). Gustaf Unger Films, AB Fortuna Film. Directed by Virgil W Vogel. Written by Arthur C. Pierce and (uncredited) Robert M Fresco. Cast includes Robert Burton, Sten Gester and Barbara Wilson. 72 minutes. Black and white. / The Royal Academy of Science in Sweden is puzzled by reports of a meteor crashing in ...
Nichols, Dawson
(? - ) US playwright and author, active in the first capacity from around 2000; none of his plays, though they tend to engage in Pirandelloesque plays between actors and author (see Luigi Pirandello), do more than make reference to the engines of Fantastika [they are not listed below]. His first novel, Terminal Dispatch (2022), follows the attempts of its protagonist and his ...
Wise, Susannah
(? - ) UK actor and author, active in the former capacity from the late 1990s. Her first novel, This Fragile Earth (2021), was inspired, according to Wise, by the death of her father the film director Herbert Wise (1924-2015). In Near Future London living conditions continue to worsen as planetary crises (see Climate Change) proliferate; the ...
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 ...