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Millet, F D
(1846-1912) US painter, sculptor, journalist and author whose A Capillary Crime and Other Stories (coll 1892) contains several mystery tales with sf explanations. He was one of four authors of sf – the others are John Jacob Astor, Jacques Futrelle and W T Stead – who went down with the Titanic. [JC]
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Film (1971). Apjac/Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Don Taylor. Written be Paul Dehn, based on characters created by Pierre Boulle. Cast includes Bradford Dillman, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy and William Windom. 97 minutes. Colour. / This is the third of the five Planet of the Apes films. When screenwriter Paul Dehn had been working ...
Kemurikusa
Japanese animated tv series (2019). Yaoyorozu. Directed and written by TATSUKI. Voice cast includes Arisa Kiyoto, Mikako Komatsu, Kenji Nojima and Tomomi Jiena Sumi. Twelve 24-minute episodes (plus six shorts). Colour. / This was TATSUKI's next project after the successful Season One of Kemono Friends (2017-current) and is based on his earlier two-part ONA (Original Net Animation), also called Kemurikusa and ...
Lost City, The
US Serial Film (1935). Super Serial Productions Inc.. Directed by Harry Revier. Written by Zelma Carroll, Robert Dillon, Eddie Granemann, Geo M Merrick, Perley Sheehan and Leon D'Usseau. Cast includes Sam Baker, Billy Bletcher, William "Stage" Boyd, Gino Corrado, Claudia Dell, Margot D'Use, Eddie Fetherston, George F Hayes, Kane Richmond and Josef Swickard. Twelve 17-28 minute chapters. Black and white. / A series of electrical storms causes global ...
Moran, Jodi
(1964- ) US author, sister of Daniel Keys Moran, with whom she collaborated on one novel, Terminal Freedom (1997). [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 ...