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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld (see Flat Earth) resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the ...
Herwer, Chris
Probably the working name of Hans Thorvald Johan Chris Herwer (1877-1949), a US painter whose sf novel is Dwellers in the Temple of Mondama: By Chris Herwer, H S D, Under the Guidance and Inspiration of the Ancient Lemurian Master G O Numa (1949), a Prehistoric SF tale set 81,000 years ago in Lemuria (see Atlantis), where a young couple are brought up in a vast temple and after breeding are ordered to leave home for ...
Connors, A
(? - ) UK author whose first novel, the Young Adult Near Future The Girl Who Broke the Sea (2023), confronts its young protagonist, an adolescent who feels trapped in the deep-sea mining and research station called Deephaven, with personal and ethical issues to solve. Her botanist mother and other Scientists are in the process of discovering a ...
Big Bus, The
Film (1976). Paramount Pictures. Produced by Lawrence J Cohen and Fred Freeman. Directed by James Frawley. Written by Cohen and Freeman. Cast includes John Beck, Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, José Ferrer, Ruth Gordon, Larry Hagman, Sally Kellerman and Stuart Margolin. 88 minutes. Colour. / The Cyclops, a nuclear-powered luxury double-decker bus equipped with bowling alleys and swimming pools and capable of holding 110 passengers along with its crew, departs on a ...
Hydrozagadka
["Hydro-Mystery"] Polish film (1971). Zespół Filmowy Plan. Directed by Andrzej Kondratiuk. Written by Andrzej Bonarski and Andrzej Kondratiuk. Cast includes Iga Cembrzyńska, Roman Kłosowski, Zdzisław Maklakiewicz, Wiesław Michnikowski and Józef Nowak. 70 minutes. Black and white. / Hydro-Mystery uses the Superhero genre as a vehicle for Satire. Shot in ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star ...