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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Hopkins, Pauline
(1859-1940) US editor, journalist, playwright, actor and author active from around 1880, whose difficult literary career (she was African-American) ended after the publication of her fourth novel, Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self (November 1902-January 1903 The Colored American Magazine; 2004). The protagonist of the tale – a medical student in Boston named Reuel Briggs, passing for white at a time of ferocious prejudice in America – becomes enamoured of a ...
Dogs in Space
US animated tv series (2021-2022). GrizzlyJerr Productions, Atomic Cartoons. Created by Jeremiah Cortez. Directed by Ed Chee, Monica Davila, James Suhr and Carl Upsdel. Writers include Jillian Goldfluss, Megan Gonzales, James Hamilton and Amalia Levari. Voice cast includes Stephanie Beatriz, Sarah Chalke, Kimiko Glenn, David Lopez, Haley Joel Osment, Chris Parnell and Debra Wilson. Twenty episodes of circa 21 minutes. Colour. / Sometime in 2223, Captain Garbage (Osment) is ...
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
US live action-animated film (2003). Warner Brothers. Directed by Joe Dante. Written by Larry Doyle. Cast includes Timothy Dalton, Jenny Elfman, Brandon Fraser, Heather Locklear, and Steve Martin. Voice cast includes Joe Alaskey, Jeff Glenn Bennett, June Foray, Eric Goldberg, and Billy West. 91 minutes. Colour. / This continuation of the beloved Warner Bros. Cartoons features their most iconic characters, ...
Ritter, Daniel
(1990- ) US engineer, editor and author, son of David Ritter, with whom he is primarily responsible as author and editor of the ongoing Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom sequence beginning with The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom: Volume One: The 1930s (2020); for further details see the entry on his father. [JC]
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 ...