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SSSS.Dynazenon
Japanese animated tv series (2021). Trigger. Directed by Akira Amemiya. Written by Keiichi Hasegawa. Voice cast includes Chika Anzai, Junya Enoki, Daiki Hamano, Yūichirō Umehara and Shion Wakayama. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / High schooler Yomogi Asanaka (Enoki) gives his lunch to the starving Gauma (Hamano) who lives under a bridge. Later, Gauma berates Yume Minami (Wakayama) when she stands up Yomogi, to his ...
Strick, Philip
(1939-2006) UK sf and film critic, anthologist, teacher, and director of a film library. In 1969 he initiated one of the first adult evening classes in sf in the UK, sponsored by the University of London at the City Literary Institute (see SF in the Classroom), which continued until 1992 under various tutors including John Clute, Colin Greenland, Peter ...
Stalker
Russia film (1979). Mosfilm. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Production design Tarkovsky. Written by Arkady and Boris Strugatski, based on their Roadside Picnic (1972; trans 1977). Cast includes Nikolai Grinko, Aleksandr Kaidanovsky and Anatoli Solonitsyn. 161 minutes. Black and white and colour. / The original novel tells of a mysterious ...
Tit-Bits Science Fiction Comics
UK Comic (1953). C Arthur Pearson, Ltd. Six issues. Most artwork and scripts by Ron Turner. 2-3 stories per issue. Cover in colour, but strips in black and white. A seventh issue was completed but not published in the UK, but was later released in France as Aventures de Demain #21 (1957). / Issue #1 opens with "The Dome of Survival": back "in the finite depths of time" (see Time Abyss), Pluto's ...
Whiz Comics
US Comic (1940-1953). Fawcett Publications. 155 issues (#2-#155, with two numbered as #3). Artists include C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza, Kurt Schaffenberger and Basil Wolverton. Scriptwriters include Otto Binder, Rod Reed, Basil Wolverton and Bill Woolfolk. Initially 68 pages, down to 36 by the end of its run. Initially with several long strips, declining to 3-4 as the page numbers reduced; there was also a short text story, plus short ...
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 ...