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Moers, Walter
(1957- ) German comics writer/illustrator and author, most of whose early work was in Comics, of greatest sf interest being the Adolf, die Nazisau ["Adolf, the Nazi Pig"] sequence, comprising Adolf (graph 1998) and Adolf, Teil 2 ["Adolf, Part 2"] (graph 1999), a Satirical Alternate History tale in which Hitler ...
Jupiter [magazine]
UK Amateur Magazine edited and published by Ian Redman, Yeovil, Somerset. It was published on a reliable quarterly schedule from Summer (July) 2003 in print form – also since #32 (April 2011) – downloadable in digital form – until is ceased publication with #41 (October 2015). The paper version was a slim (32 pages) A5 format, unprepossessing with a black-and-white cover but no other artwork; colour covers appeared only rarely, beginning ...
Stow, Percy
(1876-1919) UK filmmaker. Stow worked with Cecil Hepworth (1874-1953) at the latter's Hepworth Studios between 1901-1903, then co-founded the Clarendon Film Company in 1904. He directed over 290 short films before his early death in 1919. He became identified with trick films, using such ploys as double exposure, stop motion and reversing the film. Early films were typically very short, to set up and execute a visual gag. They grew longer over the years (though usually staying well under 10 ...
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
1. Film (1951). Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Robert Wise. Written by Edmund H North, based on "Farewell to the Master" (October 1940 Astounding) by Harry Bates. Cast includes Sam Jaffe, Hugh Marlowe, Patricia Neal and Michael Rennie. 92 minutes. Black and white. / Produced at the beginning of the sf boom of the 1950s, this is generally regarded as a classic, though its ethics might ...
Haiblum, Isidore
(1935-2012) US author, born, educated and based in New York, where he set much of his fiction. Haiblum's best work can best be described as Judeofuturism, a term for which he must be considered an obvious early influence in the same sense as, say, Samuel R Delany's influence on Cyberpunk. The bulk of Haiblum's work combines a tongue-in-cheek hardboiled narrative with a distinctly Yiddish Humour ...
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 ...