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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Film (1953; vt On to Mars). Universal Studios. Directed by Charles Lamont. Written by D D Beauchamp and John Grant, based on a story by D D Beauchamp and Howard Christie. Cast includes Bud Abbott, Mari Blanchard, Lou Costello, Martha Hyer, Joe Kirk, Jack Kruschen and Robert Paige. 77 minutes. Black and white. / Two menial labourers, Orville (Costello) and Lester (Abbott), are inadvertently launched in a Spaceship and land near New Orleans; they ...
Monroe, Keith
(1915-2003) US author best known for juvenile sf (and also much nonfiction) aimed at Boy Scouts. In the Time Machine series (1959-1989) – comprising 16 stories as by Donald Keith in collaboration with his father Donald Monroe (1888-1972) and seven by Monroe alone – an abandoned Time Machine enables adventures for the Scout patrol that finds it. As lifelong Scout leaders, the Monroes brought verisimilitude to their Scouting milieu. The ...
Fantasy Film Journal
Letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine printed on middle-grade paper. Published by Quarterly Nostalgia Graphics. Editor: unknown. Two numbered but undated issues in 1977. / Short-lived but well-produced publication which like so many others failed to obtain adequate distribution. #1 was largely dedicated to Star Wars (1977), but also featured material on Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman (see ...
Cid, José
(1942- ) Portuguese singer, composer and keyboardist who created several progressive and symphonic rock records in the 1970s, including the concept album 10.000 Anos Depois Entre Vénus e Marte ["10,000 Years Later Between Venus and Mars"] (1979), about a man and a woman travelling to Earth 10,000 years in the Far Future to repopulate the destroyed planet (see ...
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 ...