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Knowles, W P
(1891-1978) UK advocate of the Knowles method of breath training and author, in active service during World War One. His Scientific Romance Jim McWhirter (1933), the last portion of which is set in 1953, advances, accompanied by considerable philosophical debate, towards a not unusual socialist Utopia where Sex is a form of hygiene, via a sequence of very ...
Morrow, Gray
Working name of American artist Dwight Graydon Morrow (1934-2001). After some brief training in Chicago, Morrow moved to New York in the 1950s and began drawing for Comics, which largely remained the focus of his entire career; among other early assignments, he did some work for Atlas Comics, soon to be rechristened Marvel Comics, and three issues of Classics Illustrated, one being a 1961 ...
Antena, La
["The Aerial"] Film (2007). Dogwoof presents a LaDobleA production. Written and directed by Esteban Sapir. Cast includes Valeria Bertuccelli, Julieta Cardinali, Rafael Ferro, Raúl Hochman, Sol Moreno, Carlos Piñeiro, Florencia Raggi, Jonathan Sandor and Alejandro Urdapilleta. 99 minutes. Black and white. / This almost-silent film from Argentina uses the long-standing connection between early Cinema and the ...
King-Hall, Lou
Working name of UK author Olga Louisa Elisabeth King-Hall (1897-1985), whose Fly Envious Time (1944) posits a Near-Future world in which Eugenics dominates and by 1979 women have achieved full equality in the Federal Union of Democracy; World War Three follows rather rapidly, however, in 1999. Her brother was Stephen King-Hall. [JC]
Knapp, Adeline
(1860-1909) US journalist, feminist and author, partner in the 1890s of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, whose collection of speculative tales and disquisitions, One Thousand Dollars a Day: Studies in Practical Economics (coll 1894), contains several items of direct sf interest, including the title story, where a lode of inexhaustible wealth turns sour for the citizens of the United States; "The Discontented Machine", in which an assembly-line ...
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 ...