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Paterson, Don
(1963- ) Scottish academic, editor, musician, composer and author, active from the late 1980s. His Poetry, which has been assembled in several collections beginning with Nil Nil (coll 1993 chap), is vigorous, formally inventive, various. Of specific sf interest is Zonal (coll of linked poems 2020 chap), a set of explorations into something like autobiography through the lenses of ...
Shining Future, The
Short US film (1944). Warner Bros. Directed by LeRoy Prinz. Written by James Bloodworth and Mannie Manheim. Cast includes Olive Blakeney, Jimmy Lydon and Charles Ruggles. 21 minutes. Black and white. / A man sitting at a desk greets Canada: "What you are about to see is an imaginative glimpse into the future, a Hollywood view of the year 1960. We'll see some rather startling things, some of which may be commonplace by then. Here we go, to the City of the ...
Midnight Sky, The
Film (2020). Netflix and Anonymous Content present a Smokehouse Pictures, Syndicate Entertainment and Truenorth Productions production. Directed by George Clooney. Written by Mark L Smith, based on Good Morning, Midnight (2016) by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Cast includes Tiffany Boone, Kyle Chandler, George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Ethan Peck and Caoilinn Springall. 122 minutes. Colour. / An Arctic ...
Metropolis [2]
Japanese animated film (2001; vt Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis). Based on the Manga by Osamu Tezuka. Madhouse. Directed by Rintaro. Written by Katsuhiro Ōtomo. Voice cast includes Yuka Imoto, Tarô Ishida, Kei Kobayashi, Hiroaki Okada, Junpei Takiguchi and Kōsei Tomita. 108 minutes. Colour. / Duke Red (Ishida), a ...
Coville, Bruce
(1950- ) US author of sf and fantasy, mostly the latter, almost exclusively juveniles. Of some sf interest are: Murder in Orbit (1987; vt Space Station ICE-3 1987); My Teacher Is an Alien (1989) and its sequels, My Teacher Fried My Brains (1991), My Teacher Glows in the Dark (1991), all three assembled as My Teacher Is an Alien: 3 Books in One (omni 1995), plus and ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...