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Warning from Space
Japanese film (1956). Original title Uchūjin Tokyo ni Arawaru; vt Mysterious Satellite. Daiei Film. Directed by Koji Shima. Written by Hideo Oguni (based on a draft by Gentaro Nakajima). Cast includes Toyomi Karita and Isao Yamagata. 87 minutes. Colour. / After UFO reports from around the world, one is seen falling into Tokyo Bay, followed by sightings of Monsters; shortly after, a ...
Shinseiki Evangelion
["New Century Evangelion"] Japanese animated tv series (1995-1996; vt Neon Genesis Evangelion). Studio Gainax, TV Tokyo, King Records, Tatsunoko. Directed by Hideaki Anno Kazuya Tsurumaki. Written by Hideaki Anno, Akio Satsugawa. Cast includes Megumi Hayashibara, Yuko Miyamura and Megumi Ogata. 26 episodes of 25 minutes. Colour. / In the year 2000, a devastating "meteorite strike" on Antarctica creates a global cataclysm and ...
Wolfe, Gene
(1931-2019) US author, born in New York, raised in Texas, long resident in Illinois. He served in the Korean War; his experiences there, which haunted his depictions of War over the decades of his active career, are recorded in the correspondence with his mother between 1952 and 1954 assembled as Letters Home (coll 1991). He graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston and worked in engineering until becoming an editor of a trade ...
Gearhart, Sally Miller
(1931-2021) US author of lesbian-Feminist works – including A Feminist Tarot (1976) with Susan Rennie – and former Professor of Speech and Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. Her first sf book, one of the most extreme of those that envisage men and women as effectively different races, is The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women (coll of linked stories 1980). It is set in the outlaw, all-women, ...
McLaughlin, N Monroe
(1830-1907) US teacher and author of The Last Man: A Novel (1900), couched as the autobiography of the last Union survivor of the American Civil War; his narrative extends to 1926, when America has become a clement Utopia. [JC]
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...