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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
It Came from Beneath the Sea
Film (1955). Clover/Columbia. Produced by Charles H Schneer. Directed by Robert Gordon. Written by George Worthing Yates, Hal Smith, based on a story by Yates. Cast includes Donald Curtis, Faith Domergue and Kenneth Tobey. 77 minutes. Black and white. / In this Monster Movie a giant octopus is affected by atomic radiation – as so often in the genre – and goes on a destructive rampage, attacking San Francisco and demolishing various ...
Barr, Tyrone C
(? -? ) UK author. His sf novel, Split Worlds (1959; vt The Last 14 1960), sees 14 crew members of a Space Station survive the extermination (by Suicide) of everyone on Earth. Eventually they must land and breed and start again, though quarrelling furiously, in a fantastically transformed world. [JC]
Hood, Christopher M
(? - ) US teacher and author whose first novel, The Revivalists (2022), set in a Near Future world whose populations have barely survived a flu-like Pandemic escaped from melting permafrost (see Climate Change). Chastened small-scale relics, perhaps ultimately viable, of the old world do persist; but the protagonists, parents of a daughter who ...
Le Faure, Georges
(1856-1953) French author who sometimes wrote as Georges Faber; his Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe (1888-1889-1890-1896 4vols) [for publishing details see Checklist] with Henry de Graffigny – part of which has appeared as The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System (trans of the above by Brian Stableford 2009 2vols) – constitutes a ...
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 ...