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German tv series (2022-current). A Dark Ways production for Netflix. Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. Directed by Baran bo Odar. Written by Odar and Friese. Other writers are Emil Nygaard Albertsen, Jerome Bucchan-Nelson Dario, Juliana Lima Dehne, Madrona López Gallego, Emma Ko. Cast includes Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Jonas Bloquet, Miguel Bernardeau, Fflyn Edwards, Yann Gael, Anton Lesser, Maciej Musial, Matthilde Ollivier, José ...
Berg, Sibylle
(1962- ) German journalist, playwright and author, in Switzerland from 1996, active from the early 1990s; their first novel, Ein paar Leute suchen das Glück und lachen sich tot erschien ["A Few People Search for Happiness and Laugh Themselves to Death"] (1997) is a sharp gonzo Satire directed to contemporary German and worldwide culture, with a sustaining focus on the music industry. Several of her subsequent novels convey ...
Questor Tapes, The
Made-for-tv film (1974). Universal/NBC. Directed by Richard A Colla. Teleplay Gene Roddenberry, Gene L Coon. Cast includes Mike Farrell, Robert Foxworth and John Vernon. 100 minutes. Colour. / This was the rather good pilot episode for a Television series that never sold. Questor (Foxworth), the last of a series of Android guardians deposited on Earth aeons ago by a beneficent ...
Greer, Gery
(1944- ) US author, all of whose books have been written in collaboration with her husband, Bob Ruddick; her work is exclusively aimed at the younger end of the Young Adult market, and includes two series, the Max and Me sequence beginning with Max and Me and the Time Machine (1983) with Bob Ruddick, in which a piece of junk turns out to be a time machine that carries young Max (see ...
Trueman, Chrysostom
Pseudonym of the unidentified UK author (? -? ) who lists himself as "Editor" of The History of a Voyage to the Moon (1864) [for full title see Checklist], a Proto-SF tale described by Darko Suvin in Victorian Science Fiction in the UK (1983) as being of considerable importance; Suvin also speculates that "Trueman" may possibly have been James Hinton (1822-1875), father ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. His first professional publication was the long sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" (Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959] Triquarterly), though he only began publishing sf reviews in 1964 and sf proper with "A Man Must Die" in New Worlds for ...