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Raife, Raymond
Pseudonym of an insecurely identified author, possibly Benjamin Hayward (? -? ), active from before 1900 in the magazines with most of his work 1908-1927 appearing in Boy's Own Paper (see Boys' Papers). Of sf interest are The Sheik's White Slave: Being an Account of the Unravelling of the Mysteries of the Temple of Djaramos (1895), a Lost Race tale set in North Africa, and ...
Flesh Eaters, The
Film (1964). Vulcan Productions Inc/Cinema Distributors of America. Produced and directed by Jack Curtis. Written by Arnold Drake. Cast includes Martin Kosleck, Rita Morley, Byron Sanders, Ray Tudor and Barbara Wilkins. 87 minutes. Black and white. / A young woman on a small boat near an apparently deserted Island encounters rough weather; her bikini top is blown off and she stumbles overboard, to be consumed in a mass of frothing water by unseen ...
Cohen, Bernard
(1963- ) US-born author, in Australia since his family moved there while he was an infant. Besides some mainstream work he wrote Snowdome (1998), a complex tale comparing, through parallel storylines, the congested noise-contaminated Sydney of 1998, and a Dystopian future in which Sydney has been depopulated, except for the sound of reproduced voices in museums, giving tourists a viewpoint on the dead past. The title refers to ...
Schochet, Victoria
(1947- ) US editor, publisher and author, married to Eric Van Lustbader since 1982; subsequently a freelance editor and nonfantastic novelist as Victoria Lustbader. She has worked editorially at Analog (as managing editor), Harper, Putnam, and as senior sf/fantasy editor at the Berkley Publishing Group, where she co-edited all five volumes of the significant ...
Oneamisu no Tsubasa
["The Wings of Honneamise"] Japanese animated film (1987). Gainax, Bandai Visual, Tōhō Tōwa. Directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga. Written by Hiroyuki Yamaga. Cast includes Leo Morimoto and Mitsuki Yayoi. 119 minutes. Colour. / Shirotsugh Lhadatt (Morimoto) is a hapless, directionless youth who becomes one of the test subjects in his kingdom's rickety, underfunded space programme. A dead-end propaganda exercise by a ...
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 (1966-1967), and later in ...