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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Droids
German 1970s electro-disco group. Their album Star Peace (1978) contains eight science-fictional songs that attempt, in unauthorized and unembarrassed fashion (most obviously in the opening track "Can You Feel the Force?"), to cash in on the success of Star Wars (1977), from whose popularization of the term Droid the band's name was derived. [AR]
Jubilee
Film (1978). Waley-Malin Production/Megalovision. Written and directed by Derek Jarman. Cast includes Adam Ant, Ian Charleson, Jordan, Little Nell, Richard O'Brien, Orlando, Jenny Runacre and Toyah Willcox. 104 minutes. Colour. / This was the first solo film by Jarman, one of the doyens of gay, experimental and Gender-bending cinema in the UK. The film, which displays a strong sense of irony about the glories of England, was made to be released just in time ...
Roberts, Steve
(? - ) US author of Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985), a Tie to the film Max Headroom (1985). [JC]
Horton, Rich
(1959- ) US software engineer working in the aerospace industry; columnist, reviewer and editor from the late 1990s, when he contributed reviews of short fiction to Tangent Online. In February 2002 he began a monthly review column in Locus – "Locus Looks at Short Fiction" – also specializing in stories gleaned from magazines and anthologies. In 2022 he announced that, after 20 years, this column would be retired; but that he ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...