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Trust and Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot
Videogame (1987). Designed by Chris Crawford. Platforms: Mac. / Siboot is a rare example of an attempt to make use of emergent narrative techniques in a Videogame (see Interactive Narrative). The player takes the part of an Alien religious acolyte competing against a number of other ...
Graham, J M
(? - ) UK author of a routine sf novel for Robert Hale Limited, Voice from Earth (1972), in which a returning Spaceship finds Earth is now depopulated; issues of Relativity are invoked. [JC/DRL]
Bruère, Martha Bensley
(1879-1953) US artist, editor and author, known early as a portrait painter, later in various social reform campaigns as a member of the Women's Trade Union League, an organization noted for its advocacy of women's rights (see Feminism). Her sf novel, Mildred Carver, U.S.A. (1919), depicts a Near Future Utopian America modestly reconstructed on socialist principles, a main feature of the new ...
Thomas, Donald S
(1934- ) UK historian and author, much of whose early fiction was written as by Francis Selwyn, primarily the Sergeant Verity sequence of nonfantastic historical thrillers [not included in Checklist below]. His Sherlock Holmes sequence of tales beginning with The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes (1997) hovers innocuously at the edge of the fantastic (see Sherlock Holmes). Thomas is of sf interest for ...
Mask of Fu Manchu, The
Film (1932). Cosmopolitan/MGM. Directed by Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor. Written by Irene Kuhn, Edgar Allen Woolf, John Willard, based on The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) by Sax Rohmer. Cast includes Jean Hersholt, Boris Karloff, Myrna Loy, Karen Morley and Lewis Stone. 72 minutes, cut to 67 minutes. Black and white. / Rohmer's Oriental Supervillain has since been brought ...
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 ...