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Fantasy Book
1. US Semiprozine issued initially in letter-size for two issues and then various Digest-size formats. Eight undated issues published between July 1947 and January 1951; irregular. Published by Fantasy Publishing Company Inc; edited by Garret Ford (pseudonym of William L Crawford). Fantasy Book was generally an undistinguished and ...
All Gummed Up
Short US film (1947). Columbia Pictures. Directed by Jules White. Written by Felix Adler (story and screenplay). Cast includes Symona Boniface (uncredited), Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Florence Lake (uncredited), Judy Malcolm (uncredited), Christine McIntyre, Norman Ollestad (uncredited), Cy Schindell (uncredited), Emil Sitka, Al Thompson (uncredited), Michael Towne (uncredited), and Victor Travis (uncredited). 18 minutes. Black and white. / The Three Stooges (at the time, ...
Children of Men
Film (2006). Universal Pictures present a Strike Entertainment production in association with Hit and Run Productions. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Written by Cuarón & Timothy J Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby, based on The Children of Men (1992) by P D James. Cast includes Clare-Hope Ashitey, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Huston, Julianne Moore, Peter Mullan and Clive Owen. 109 minutes. Colour. ...
Davey, Norman
(1888-1949) UK engineer and author, in active service throughout World War One, whose Perhaps: A Tale of To-morrow (1914; rev vt Yesterday: A Tory Fairy-Tale 1924) wittily (but also frivolously) describes the Near-Future secession of the Isle of Wight. Although copies of the original version of Perhaps exist, there is no clear evidence that it was officially published; this omission was almost ...
Dune
Film (1984). Dino De Laurentiis/Universal. Directed by David Lynch. Written by Lynch, based on Dune (fixup 1965) by Frank Herbert. Cast includes Francesca Annis, Kyle MacLachlan, Kenneth McMillan, many others, Sting and Sean Young. 137 minutes. Colour. / Seldom has a big-budget genre film been so execrated by fans and film critics alike. Certainly its narrative is confused to the point of incoherence, ...
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 ...