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Wolf House, The
Chilean stop-motion animated film (2018; original title La Casa Lobo). Diluvio, Globo Rojo Films. Directed by Joaquín Cociña and Cristobal León. Written by Joaquín Cociña, Cristobal León and Alejandra Moffat. Voice cast comprises Amalia Kassai and Rainer Krause. 74 minutes. Colour. / In Chile, the "shepherd" (Krause) of an "isolated and pure" rural German community shares a restored ...
Gollancz
UK publishing house, for many years properly styled Victor Gollancz Ltd, famous (until its sale to the US company Houghton Mifflin in 1990) as one of the last family companies in UK publishing; in 1992 Houghton Mifflin sold the firm to the Cassell group of companies, where it became an imprint; in December 1998 it was acquired by Orion, itself newly purchased by Hachette, and Victor Gollancz soon became Orion's imprint for all sf, fantasy and horror, excepting only some children's genre titles ...
Feder, Ben
(1923-2009) US real estate developer, winemaker and illustrator, the last being his first career, his cover work all dating from the 1950s and 1960s. In a manner typical of his era, he specialized in discrete emblematic images floating against neutral backgrounds. Work of interest includes covers for Robert Coover's The Origin of the Brunists (1966), Jack Finney's The Third Level (coll 1957), Robert ...
Arts
By virtue of its nature, sf has one foot firmly set in each of C P Snow's "two cultures", and sf stories occasionally exhibit an exaggerated awareness of that divide. Charles L Harness's notable novella "The Rose" (March 1953 Authentic) takes the reconciliation of an assumed antagonism between art and science as its theme, the author adopting the view that the emotional richness of art is necessary to temper ...
Taylor, Geoff [2]
(1920-1992) UK-born Australian author of Day of the Republic (1968), set in a Near Future Australia about to lose free speech and other democratic values (see Politics) after the nation votes to leave the British Commonwealth and to become a republic, which is to say a fascist dictatorship. [JC]
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...