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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Film (2011). DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures in association with Hasbro present a Di Bonaventura Pictures production. Directed by Michael Bay. Written by Ehren Kruger. Cast includes Patrick Dempsey, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBoeuf, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Leonard Nimoy (voice) and John Turturro. 154 minutes. Colour, 3D. / As LaBoeuf's character makes the further transition from college to ...
Knight, Norman L
(1895-1972) US author and pesticide chemist for the Department of Agriculture until his retirement in 1963. He was not a prolific writer, publishing only 11 stories altogether, the first of which was the serialized novella "Frontier of the Unknown" for Astounding in July and August 1937. He made his main contribution by collaborating with James Blish on A Torrent of Faces (1967). This novel – whose ...
Nolane, Richard D
Pseudonym of French author, editor and Comics writer Olivier Raynaud (1955- ), who began to publish work of genre interest in 1977 and whose first English-language publication was as the editor for DAW Books of Terra SF: The Year's Best European SF (anth 1981), a useful anthology of Western European sf in translation. This was followed by Terra SF II: The Year's Best European SF (anth ...
Tregear, Edward
(1846-1931) UK-born author, surveyor and politician, in New Zealand from June 1863, where among other things he studied the Maori language and culture and became a notable social reformer. Maori scholarship informed his venture into Fantastika, Hedged with Divinities (1895), in which all males worldwide mysteriously and symptomlessly die, with a single exception in New Zealand who has been put into a healing trance by ...
Edge Detector
Canadian Semiprozine, published and edited by Glenn Grant of London, Ontario (for the first two issues; Montreal, Quebec for the third issue) which saw three letter-size issues in Summer 1988, Summer 1989 and Summer 1991, all three computer-typeset. The magazine sought to develop experimental fiction beyond the Cyberpunk revolution and included work by Paul ...
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 ...