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Polish tv film (1968; vt Layer Cake; vt Roly Poly; vt Hodge Podge). Telewizja Polska (TVP), Zespol Filmowy "Kamera". Directed by Andrzej Wajda. Written by Stanisław Lem, based on his short story "Czy pan istnieje, Mr. Johns?" (1955 Przekrój; in Dzienniki gwiazdowe, coll 1957; trans Peter Roberts as "Are You There, Mr. Jones?", August 1969 Vision of Tomorrow). ...
Huberman, Carl
Pseudonym of an unidentified UK author (? - ) of Near Future tales with a Technothriller atmosphere. These include Eminent Domain (1996), about an assassin who (though himself legally dead) is able to use Sex to kill his victims; Welcome to the 51st State (1999), very thriller-like in its telling of the story of an ...
Banville, John
(1945- ) Irish journalist and author active from the late 1960s, his first book being a collection of stories, Long Langkin (coll 1970), followed by Nightspawn (1971), each of these nonfantastic titles focusing variously on twins and their complex interplayings, a focus which would characterize much of his work from this point; he also writes nonfantastic crime novels [not listed in the Checklist below], the early titles as by Benjamin Black (a ...
Leacock, Stephen
(1869-1944) UK-born Canadian economist and author, in Canada from the age of eight, active as a writer from about 1890; of many books of humorous sketches, the most famous is perhaps Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (coll 1912), where he expresses a deeply conservative view of the world (his anti-Feminism included opposition to women's suffrage) with engaging warmth and humour. Sf often featured as the target of the more fantastical of his ...
Mitchell, J A
(1845-1918) US editor – he founded Life magazine in 1883, editing it until his death – and author in various genres. The Romance of the Moon (1886 chap) is a fantasy for children; Mitchell's sf proper begins with The Last American: A Fragment from the Journal of Khan-Li, Prince of Dimph-Yoo-Chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy (1889 chap; exp 1902), a somewhat spoofish Satire in which a thirtieth-century Persian ...
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 (1966-1967), and later in ...