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Object Z
UK tv series (1965). Associated-Rediffusion Television. Produced and directed by Daphne Shadwell. Written by Chris McMaster. Cast includes William Abney, Celia Bannerman, Trevor Bannister, Brandon Brady, Margaret Neale, Ralph Nossek, Denys Peek and Julian Somers. Six 24-minute episodes. Black and white. / Professor Ramsay (Nossek) and other Scientists report that a Meteoroid with a diameter of six or more miles is on ...
Trutz-Baumwoll, J M
Pseudonym of the unidentified author (? -? ) of "Sendschreiben des deutsch-englischen Zukunfspolitiker" (1871 Außerordentliche Beilage zur Allgemeinen Zeitung; trans anon as Forewarned! Forearmed!: The Suggested Invasion of England by the Germans 1871 chap), which takes the Battle of Dorking as a model for the real Invasion of England, an event that (at least as far as ...
Scot, Hew
Pseudonym of Scottish physician John James Graham Brown (1853-1925), a President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; as Hew Scot he wrote two thrillers with sf overtones: The Way of War (1907) which concerns a Near Future German conspiracy involving the Invasion of Britain; and A Wild Intrigue (1910), in which the formula for a new Weapon – an explosive of ...
Evil Brain from Outer Space
Japanese/US film (1966). Shintoho. Directed by Chogi Akasaka and Teruo Ishii. Written by Ichiro Miyagawa and Teruo Ishii. Cast includes Hiroshi Asami, Akira Nakamura, Tomohiko Ôtani and Ken Utsui. 78 minutes. Black and white. / This was compiled from episodes 7, 8 and 9 of the Japanese Super Giant film series (see Tokusatsu), edited and dubbed by Walter Manley Enterprises into Evil Brain From Outer Space for ...
Bhattacharya, Lokenath
(1927-2001) Indian-born Bengali translator and author whose fourth novel, Bābughātera Kumāri Mācha (1972; trans Meenakshi Mukherjee as The Virgin Fish of Babughat 1975), focuses its moderately abstract depiction of a Near-Future Dystopian country on the fate of the inmates of a surreal Zoo-like ...
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. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star ...