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Bigfoot
Film (1970; vt Big Foot). Ellman Film Enterprises. Produced by Anthony Cardoza. Directed by Robert F Slatzer. Written by Slatzer from an original story by Slatzer and James Gordon White. Cast includes John Carradine, Lindsay Crosby, Judy Jordan, Joi Lansing, Christopher Mitchum and John Mitchum. 84 minutes. Colour. / Near a small town in northern California, Rick (Christopher Mitchum) and his girlfriend Chris (Jordan) briefly encounter a ...
Bach, Travis
(? - ) US author, married to Rachel Aaron, who collaborated with her on the Forever Fantasy Online trilogy comprising Forever Fantasy Online (2018), Last Bastion (2019 ebook) and The Once King (2019 ebook). In this Science Fantasy sequence the Young Adult protagonists Tina and James find themselves trapped ...
Kaveney, Roz
(1949- ) UK critic, editor, author and poet. Her sf criticism, beginning in the late 1970s (before 1980 as by Andrew Kaveney), has appeared in such specialist journals as Foundation and in non-genre outlets including the Washington Post and Books and Bookmen; it is marked by a seemingly off-hand general erudition and a knowing sharpness about the field; she created the term ...
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine
US Prozine, specializing in Utopian sf, published by editor Tristan Evarts. Quarterly, August 2019-current. Its arrival foreshadowed the launch of several publications in the 2020s which expressed similar tiredness with the oversaturation of Dystopias in the genre. Issues focus on stories that incorporate actual science as a means of working towards a better future but make room for explorations of ...
Bisbee, Eugene Shade
(1864-1933) US author whose first work of sf interest is "A Hundred Thousand Dollar Trance" for The Black Cat in 1896, though it is in fact about a hoax involving Hypnotism; The Treasure of the Ice (1898) is a Lost Race tale set at the south pole, where a civilization of waif Greeks has flourished, partly due to Eugenics; there is little argument in ...
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 ...