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Rimworld
A common item of sf Terminology, denoting a planet in the galactic rim region (see Galactic Lens). Rimworlds are of importance in John Brunner's Interstellar Empire sequence and provide the various settings of A Bertram Chandler's John Grimes/Rim World stories; early stories in Frank Herbert's ...
Crusade
US tv series (1999). Babylonian Productions for TNT. Created by J Michael Straczynski. Producers include Straczynski and Douglas Netter. Written by Straczynski and Fiona Avery. Directed by Michael Vejar, Tony Dow, Stephen Furst, and Janet Greek. Cast includes Gary Cole as Matthew Gideon, Tracy Scoggins as Elizabeth Lochley, Daniel Dae Kim as John Matheson, David Allen Brooks as Max Eilerson, Peter Woodward as Galen, Marjean Holden as Sarah ...
Livesey, Eric M
(1932-2004) UK author of The Desolate Land (1964), a Ruined Earth where – long after the Disaster of a nuclear test gone awry – Monsters spawned by radioactivity roam, a circumstance that does not keep the rump of America from using A-bombs to keep Latin Americans at bay. [JC]
Washburn, Robert Collyer
(1900-1978) US author, mostly of nonfiction; of sf interest is The Jury of Death: Twelve Against the Underworld (1930), a crime novel set in a Near Future version of Chicago (here Cayuga) run by the mob. Advances in Transportation, including autogyros, are evident; Television is common; an advanced Weapon, which seems to kill its victims but only stuns ...
In Flames
Swedish heavy metal band, formed in Gothenberg in 1990 by guitarist Jesper Strömblad (1972- ) and vocalist Anders Fridén (1973- ). Their third album Whoracle (1997) is a concept album about the rise of a global society on Earth, leading to a technologically advanced utopia, which is then destroyed by the inevitability of human greed and exploitation. The apocalypse is televised. In Flames have a ...
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 ...